Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · ¶50

It is in this mood and with this perspective that the issue before the Court must be approached. We must therefore put to one side consideration of what powers the President would have had if there had been no legislation whatever bearing on the authority asserted by the seizure, or if the seizure had been only for a short, explicitly temporary period, to be terminated automatically unless Congressional approval were given. These and other questions, like or unlike, are not now here. I would exceed my authority were I to say anything about them.

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U. S. Reports, volume 343, at 579 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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