CRISIS IN U.S.A.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 6

CRISIS IN U.S.A.

I i SUPREME COURT’S POWER I ! Roosevelt Makes Appeal. i . I Press Association—Copyright. Wathiingtoii, March 10. [ President Roosevelt in a radio firej side chat last night appealed directly | to the people to support his judiciary I proposals. With charaoteristic vig- ■ our he attacked the Supreme Court Cor setting itself up as a “super legislature.” “I am reminded of March four years ago, when we were in 'the midet of a great banking icrisis,” he said. “Now we are faced with a quiet crisis. There are no line® of dcipositors outside closed banks, 'but to the farsighted the crisis has far-reaching possilbilities to injure America. The

Supreme. Court has more and more often, and more and more boldly, ass serted its power to veto laws passed by Congress and State Legislatures'. In the past four years a sound rille giving statutes the benefit of all reasonable doubt has been cast aside. Title court is actinig not as a. judicial, but as a policy-making body. "That is not only my accusation., but that of the justices who dissented from the majority opinions vetoing the recent laws designed, to meet modern needs. The court has improperly set itself up as a th’rd House of Congress, a super legislature. We have, therefore, reached 'the point where we must act to save the constitution from the court, and the court from itself. "My proposals will not infring-. ir the slightest on the civil and religious liberties dear to every American. You know we cannot fear that I vfll tolerate the deistruction by any branch of the Government of any part of our heritage of freedom.”