Truman 2
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- A hearing was held in regards to President Truman's actions.
- Judge Alexander Holtzoff
- I deny the motion for a temporary restraining order against President Truman.
- A second hearing was held on April 24, 1952. It focused on if the President could seize the steel mills under his power.
- This hearing led to many different opinions about presidential powers.
- Judge David A. Pine
- I issue an injunction that will prohibit the administration from continuing to control the seized mills.
- First: "cases in which the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress".
- Third: "when the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb"
- Justice Robert Jackson rejected strict boundaries by splitting up the Presidential authority into three categories of legitimacy.
- Second: when Congress has been silent on the issue.
- Truman was shocked by these decisions. He ordered the return of the steel mills, and the workers went on strike.
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