Robinson v. Cahill

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Hughes, C. J.

The Court has now come face to face with a constitutional exigency involving, on a level of plain, stark and unmistakable reality, the constitutional obligation of the Court to act. Having previously identified a profound violation of constitutional right, based upon de*140fault in a legislative obligation imposed by the organic law in the plainest of terms,1 we have more than once stayed our hand, with appropriate respect for the province of other Branches of government. In final alternative, we must now proceed to enforce the constitutional…