Word: schecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Reed Powell, Langdell professor of Law at Harvard continues his article on "Commerce, Pensions, and Codes" in the current issue of the Harvard Law Review. This is a detailed discussion of the N.R.A. case, Schecter V. U. S. Its forerunner produced a great deal of favorable comment and it is believed that this sequal is even more interesting...
Such blind attacks are both stupid and futile. It is true that many of the laws enacted by the administration are of doubtful constitutional validity. In the Schecter and Panama Oil Cases the Supreme Court nullified acts which embodied some of the fundamental political principles of the current regime. But this does not lead to the necessary implications that all of the acts are invalid or that the administration is deliberately trying to submerge the Constitution...