The Supreme Court's decision in the District of Columbia Minimum Wage case has given the country the first definite indications of the way in which the new court may be divided in cases involving economic and social questions. The conservatives, who considered the statute unconstitutional, were Justices McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler. Those dissenting were Chief Justice Taft and Justices Holmes and Sanford. Mr. Justice Brandeis did not participate in the case because he had argued a similar case before the court ten years ago. He would doubtless have been...
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