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The situation was beginning to change for the president, however. Overlooked in all the excitement was the Supreme Court Retirement Act, passed on 1 March 1937, which allowed the justices to retire at age seventy with full pay. In May Justice Willis Van Devanter announced his retirement. More important in defusing the crisis, however, was a series of opinions the Court issued between March and May upholding important New Deal legislation, including the Social Security Act (Helvering v. Davis, in which Justice Benjamin Cardozo, writing for the majority, ruled that the general welfare clause did not prohibit the government from spending for a particular group as long as the benefit is national in scope) and the Wagner Labor Relations Act (NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.). The Court even reversed itself on the constitutionality of minimum wage laws in the...
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