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Today in Supreme Court History: June 2, 1952
6/2/1952: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer decided.
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Lothar Kreyssig was the sole judge in Nazi Germany to say, German law does not allow the confinement or execution of people who have committed no crime. He issued an arrest warrant for murder for a Nazi Governor. Of course, he was offered retirement or the firing squad.
Where was our Lothar Kreyssig?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Kreyssig
…and the Presidents have stayed within the limits of their Constitutional power ever since, the end.