Appellate Court Rules That Paper Money Discriminates Against The Blind

In a 2-1 decision the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the United States method of printing paper money was unfair to those with sight disabilities:

AP: Paper Money Discriminates

This will without a doubt makes its way to the US Supreme Court. This ruling could have far reaching implications, not only for the government, but private businesses. The US Constitution grants control for the “coining of money” to only the Congress of the United States. As such, the Congress has regulated the responsibility for the creation of our currency to the Treasury Department.

The court has stepped beyond the wall that “separates powers” by trying to impose a standard that is the clearly the purview of the US Congress and their designated agents.

The need for the US Treasury to consider the sight impaired is something they should research. However, for a federal court to impose their will when no Constituational amendment has been violated is a dangerous persistence.

The proper course of action would have been the people addressing their grievances with the branch of the government that already has the power to effect change, the US Congress.