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“Perhaps there should be one final ° or on this latter point. Thektttethe- Q umpire outcry seems to be based on the ° fallacious notion that the court is aloof | from politics and should be Immune to’. attack or criticism. There is nothing in our national experience to support this view. In the broad sense of the term, the court has always been involved in polli- tics, If anyone doubts this, he should refresh his recollection with respect to the clashes between the court and such Presidents as Jefferson, Jackson, Lin- coln, Grant and Franklin Roosevelt. In . some of these clashes the court pre- valled. In others it was curbed. But It is still, perhaps, the most powerful of — our three branches of government— - subject to no restraint except self-re- Btraint, or, in rare instances, to the restraint which can be imposed upon tt by a Congress or a President. In this instance—in the case of the Jenner- . Butler bill—there is no significant threat o the independence or to the proper uthority of the court. The real ques-]-. fon is whether it is wise to adopt any r all of the bill's provisions, and this { is for Congress to dectde. Tay one tr + 5 .