Steel Seizure Case

[isomin at gmu.edu]

Actually, it goes even farther than that. The Taft-Hartley Act gave the president the power to force the steel mills to stay open by requiring the union to end its strike. But Truman didn't want to do it that way because the unions were key political allies of the Democratic Party at the time (even more so than today). So Truman seized the mills not because this was the only way to protect national security (even assuming that keeping them open really was essential), but because this way of keeping them open was more politically advantageous to him than the way permitted by Congress.

Ilya Somin
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George Mason University School of Law
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