It is true that some judges have misused this power; but this does not justify a denial of the power any more than an improper exercise of the power to call a strike by a labor leader would justify the denial of the right to strike.
Roosevelt acknowledges judicial misuse of power but argues that it does not warrant denying that power altogether.
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