Legal Opinion
Freytag v. Commissioner
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1991No. 90-762PublishedCited by 1,294 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
The leading Framers of our Constitution viewed the principle of separation of powers as the central guarantee of a just government. James Madison put it this way: “No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty.” The Federalist No. 47, p. 324 (J. Cooke ed. 1961). In this litigation, we must decide whether the authority that Congress has granted the Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court to appoint special trial judges transgresses our structure of separated powers. We answer that inquiry in the negative.
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