Superx Drugs Corp. v. State Board of Pharmacy

Executive as well as legislative attempts to interfere with, trespass' upon, or even coerce the judicial department are nothing new in the history of tripartite government. On account thereof the judiciary, sworn as it is to uphold and maintain the constitutionally requisite prerogatives of each department, has on historic occasion been compelled to meet head-on all such attempted invasions-and, doubtless, will be so compelled as long as three-divisional government endures. - This case, regrettably, confronts us with just such an occasion.

During President Jefferson’s administration congress…