Assistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge, speaking in federal court before Judge David A. Pine, 1952:
Pine: Is it your concept of Government...that the Constitution limits Congress, and it limits the Judiciary but does not limit the Executive?
Baldridge: That's the way we read the Constitution.
Pine: Do you mean that if the President empowered [Commerce Secretary] Mr. Sawyer to take you into custody and execute you, you'd have no power to enjoin him? [TW note: Sawyer had seized the steel mills on behalf of Truman.]
Baldridge: I'll have to think that one over.
