It’s taken me all morning to remember, but the “sick chicken case” (A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States), that caused the Supreme Court to strike down a big chunk of Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1935 was brilliantly described by Amity Shlaes in her book The Forgotten Man which took a hard look at The Great Depression & questioned how effective the New Deal was.

Relevant here I think because there always seemed to me to be something phoney about Trump’s Tariffs & the way he presented his arbitrary policy ideas. It’s almost as if someone in the White House had warned him that the legal basis for what he was doing was weak & likely to be comprehensively thrown out by a court who had been taught constitutional law. Like the 1935 chicken case….