(Source: Constitution Daily, May 3, 2016)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1930s, striking down much of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” plan to pull America out of the Great Depression, brought on a constitutional crisis when Roosevelt attempted to “pack” the Court with sympathetic Justices. Both FDR’s reaction, and several if not most of the decisions that provoked him, have gone down in history as misuses — if not outright abuses — of government power.
In recent years, however, an ongoing feud between the nation’s freight railroads and Amtrak, the private corporation set up by Congress to run the passenger trains, seems to keep bringing back to life one of those supposedly discredited 1930s decisions by the court. That has happened again, for the second time in three years. And a return trip to the Supreme Court, to sort it out again, appears to be assured.
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