In re Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Undoubtedly, Congress may confer upon a non-judicial body authority to obtain information necessary for legitimate governmental purposes, and make refusal to appear and testify before it touching matters pertinent to any authorized inquiry, an offence punishable by the courts, subject, however, to the privilege of witnesses to make no disclosures which might tend to criminate them or subject them to penalties or forfeitures. A prosecution or an action for violation of-such a statute would clearly be an original suit or controversy between parties within the meaning of the Constitution, and not a mere application, like the present one, for the exercise of' the judicial power in aid of a non-judicial body.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson

2. “The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority, . . . to controversies to which the United States shall be a party, . . . e'tc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson