"Vast accretions of federal power"
I am posting because Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (343 U.S. 579 (1952)) is getting kind of boring. Not that President Truman seizing control of the nation's steel mills isn't interesting.
...okay, maybe it isn't. But the damn thing takes up nine pages in the Con Law book, which means that it takes a couple of hours to distill a brief. Worse still, before the editors cut out some stuff to put the case in the book, the dissenting opinion alone was 43 pages. Chief Justice Vinson probably got carpal tunnel. And died of boredom.
His dissenting opinion is what I'm avoiding reading now. I got through Black's Opinion of the Court last night, and have finished both Justice Frankfurter's and Justice Jackson's concurring opinions. But I fear Vinson.
Harrumph.
...okay, maybe it isn't. But the damn thing takes up nine pages in the Con Law book, which means that it takes a couple of hours to distill a brief. Worse still, before the editors cut out some stuff to put the case in the book, the dissenting opinion alone was 43 pages. Chief Justice Vinson probably got carpal tunnel. And died of boredom.
His dissenting opinion is what I'm avoiding reading now. I got through Black's Opinion of the Court last night, and have finished both Justice Frankfurter's and Justice Jackson's concurring opinions. But I fear Vinson.
Harrumph.