Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933

8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The Supreme Court declared those codes unconstitutional in Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935).

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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[Sarcastr0]

The Supreme Court has never found a violation of the nondelegation doctrine outside of Panama Refining and Schechter Poultry in 1935.

In the 1989 case Mistretta v. United States, the Court stated that:
Applying this "intelligible principle" test to congressional delegations, our jurisprudence has been driven by a practical understanding that in our increasingly complex society, replete with ever changing and more technical problems, Congress simply cannot do its job absent an ability to delegate power under broad general directives. Accordingly, this Court has deemed it "constitutionally sufficient" if Congress clearly delineates the general policy, the public agency which is to apply it, and the boundaries of this delegated authority.

[Dan Schiavetta]

IOW the Court in effect admitted that it had decided Panama Refining and Schechter Poultry wrongly.

[Sarcastr0]

Pragmatic Functionalism ftw.

We do not live in a platonic vacuum free for ideologies to run free and pure.

[DaivdBehar]

Delegation injures the separation of powers, which is the basis of our freedom. All judicial review and executive regulation must be approved by the Congress, or they are are void.

[Titus PUllo]

The entire FDR admin was unconstitutional as far as any self respecting libertarian is concerned..the guy was an idiot led by socialists.