What does economic role mean? like what does the question mean when it says: what is the economic role of the group?

What is their job or what do they do in the economic world

It is their career or job. Also, how they are contributing to the world

Opposition to the nra came to a head in 1935, when the conservative supreme court declared the agency unconstitutional, claiming the nra gave the executive branch regulatory powers that belonged exclusively to congress. this decision began a series of court decisions that overturned key elements of the new deal.