In the Supreme Court case of New State Ice Company v. Liebmann (1932), Justice Louis Brandeis famously defended the A) supremacy of the federal government over state governments. B) right of citizens to seek redress from onerous state laws through federal courts. C) need for the national and state governments to embrace a single, uniform regulatory code. D) right of state governments to experiment with innovative public policies. E) power of the Supreme Court to overturn state policies that are not founded on longstanding legislative tradition.

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In New State Ice Company v. Liebmann (1932), Justice Louis Brandeis defended the right of state governments to experiment with innovative public policies. Specifically, he argued that states should be allowed to regulate businesses within their borders as they see fit, as long as their regulations do not violate the Constitution. Brandeis believed that allowing states to experiment with different regulatory approaches would ultimately benefit the entire country by leading to more effective and efficient regulation.

In the Supreme Court Case of New State Ice Company