Friday, March 29, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor

Justice Hugo Black on Separation of Powers

November 5, 2016 --

“The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times.” From his majority opinion in the 1952 case, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., v. Sawyer (The Steel Seizure Case).
Justice Robert Jackson’s advice to Congress, from his concurring opinion in the same case:

“[O]nly Congress itself can prevent power from slipping through its fingers.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, please copy.