Historedia
Episode 1 of 1

Supreme Court Decision

When
1895
Where
Supreme Court of the United States
Part of
In re Debs: the US Supreme Court upholds federal power over the Pullman Strike

The Supreme Court upheld Debs' contempt conviction, affirming federal authority to regulate railway labor and enjoin mail obstruction.

Justice David Josiah Brewer wrote for a unanimous court, ruling in favor of the US government. The decision confirmed that the Postal and Commerce Clauses grant federal power to regulate labor conditions on railways, thereby validating the injunction against the American Railway Union.

Sources

  1. In re Debs Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-30
  2. Supreme Court of the United States Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-16

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.