Summary: During the New Deal, the U.S. Supreme Court largely abandoned its role as an independent check on government power in the economic sphere by refusing to enforce constitutional limits on federal power and inventing a rubber stamp standard of review called the "rational basis” test. This abdication of judicial responsibility has enabled legislators to run roughshod over economic liberties and property rights ever since. IJ senior attorneys Clark Neily and Jeff Rowes talk about the Supreme Court decisions that unleashed government power during the New Deal. <p>Guests: IJ Attorneys <a href="http://www.ij.org/staff/cneily">Clark Neily</a> and <a href="http://www.ij.org/staff/jrowes">Jeff Rowes</a><br>Host: Shira Rawlinson<br>Length:27:33<br>Date: April 2012</p>
