Supreme Court justices appear ready to rule against California raisin board

The L.A. Times reports:

The Supreme Court justices sounded ready Wednesday to rule in favor of a Fresno raisin farmer by striking down part of a Depression-era law that allows a government-backed board to seize part of a farmer’s crop in order to reduce supply and prop up prices.

The court’s conservatives characterized the California raisin board’s actions as examples of outdated and heavy-handed government regulation that deny farmers their rights to private property.

“Central planning was thought to work very well in 1937,” a skeptical Justice Antonin Scalia told a government lawyer defending the program.

Here's is the New Deal in a nutshell: limit output and raise prices. How un-American.