My Country – You Don’t Have to Salute the Flag On June 3, 1940, the Supreme Court held that a Jehovah’s Witness must salute the flag if required by statute. In Pennsylvania, a state law required school children to salute the flag. A child claimed that doing so would violate his religious beliefs. We discussed …
My Country – Truman Seizes the Steel Mills On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order directing the Secretary of Commerce to take possession of most of the steel mills and nationalize them. The Supreme Court stepped in with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952). Background on the …