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Amid all these great projects, however, the case of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. was working its way through the legal system. The four Schechter brothers, who ran a small kosher poultry business in Brooklyn, had been convicted of several violations of the NRA code, including the sale of diseased poultry. "If I'd known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard...
...Supreme Court opinion, delivered in May of 1935, was unanimous-and withering. In voting for the NRA, said Hughes, Congress had delegated "virtually unfettered" powers to the Administration, and that was "utterly inconsistent with the constitutional prerogatives and duties of Congress." The NRA case was the most important of the dozens challenging New Deal legislation that had been filed in the courts, but more trouble lay ahead. The following January, by a vote of 6 to 3, the court struck down the whole AAA program to regulate agriculture. The fact that Congress felt there was "a situation of national concern...
...President and the Congress could be thwarted by nine old men-one of the Justices was 80, five were in their 70s, none was under 60-inspired Roosevelt to begin planning retribution. Before that, however, he had to repair some of the damage. The labor safeguards in the NRA re-emerged in the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act of 1935, and Congress passed a new version of the AAA as the Soil Conservation...
...owning a handgun." He said arguments against gun control were based on mistaken feelings of "machismo" found in owning a gun. "You're taking away their maleness," he said in reference to gun owners who oppose gun control, adding "they will do anything to stop this." Buckley called the NRA "a very effective lobby" that has run contrary to public opinion in favor of gun control, as demonstrates in polls showing that over 70 per cent of citizens advocate some form of gun control...
...times where Ian doesn't outweigh Mick, and Mick doesn't outweigh Ian, we see What Might Have Been. "Central Park N West" is classic Hunter nonsense, and "(We Don't Want no) Gun Control" is an excellent, and singalong, riveting, sarcastic attack on the NRA. It's a shame that Hunter can't tell the difference between singing about handguns and old records; maybe a continued association with the Clash will push him toward musical complexity and moral integrity...