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Raines Vs. Byrd

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 26, 1997

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  14. U.S. 811 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Raines, Director, Office of Management and Budget, Et Al. V. Byrd
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  15. appellees must allege a personal injury that is particularized, concrete, and otherwise judicially cognizable. Lujan v. Defenders
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  16. Allen v. Wright
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  17. has never had occasion to rule on the legislative standing question presented here. Appellees are not helped by Powell v. McCormack
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  18. elected them. pp.820-821. (c) Appellees' claim also does not fall within the Court's holding in Coleman v. Miller
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  19. could have challenged the Federal Election Campaign Act's appointment provisions which were struck down in Buckley v. Valeo
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  20. irrational, our Constitution's regime contemplates a more restrictive role for Article III courts. See United States v. Richardson
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  21. Id., at 30 (citing, e. g., Michel v. Anderson
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  22. Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans
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  23. United for Separation of Church and State, Inc., 454 U. S. 464 , 471 (1982). As we said in Simon v. Eastern
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  24. requirement is that appellees, based on their complaint, must establish that they have standing to sue. Lujan v. Defenders
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  25. Bender v. Williamsport
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  26. courts may exercise power only 'in the last resort, and as a necessity''') (quoting Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman
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  27. Muskrat v. United
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  28. III We have never had occasion to rule on the question of legislative standing presented here.4 In Powell v. McCormack
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  29. by statutorily granting the right to sue to a plaintiff who would not otherwise have standing. Gladstone, Realtors v. Village
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  30. the risk of unwanted conflict with the Legislative Branch when that plaintiff brings suit. See, e. g., Bennett v. Spear
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  31. may have standing when (as here) they assert injury to their institutional power as legislators. See, e. g., Kennedy v. Sampson
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  32. Moore v. United
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  33. Barnes v. Kline
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  34. id., at 41 (Bork, J., dissenting). But see Holtzman v. Schlesinger
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  35. Harrington v. Schlesinger
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  36. we have upheld standing for legislators (albeit state legislators) claiming an institutional injury is Coleman v. Miller
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  37. or does not go into effect), on the ground that their votes have been completely nullified.6 6 See also Bender v. Williamsport
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  38. at the direction of the President, removed him. Myers sued in the Court of Claims to recover lost salary. In Myers v. United
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  39. the law preventing the removal of a Presidential appointee without the consent of Congress. Similarly, in INS v. Chadha
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  40. sued to challenge the appointment provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act which were struck down in Buckley v. Valeo
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  41. restricted role for Article III courts, well expressed by Justice Powell in his concurring opinion in United States v. Richardson
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  42. in Marbury v. Madison
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  43. exercise of legislative power but the actions of their own colleagues in Congress in passing the Act. Cf. Holtzman v. Schlesinger
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  44. ante, at 821. And yet the significance of this distinction is not so straightforward. In Braxton County Court v. West
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  45. id., at 198 (quoting Smith v. Indiana
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  46. accord, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm. v. McGrath
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  47. to a challenge by a group of state legislators in Coleman v. Miller
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  48. or one House thereof, to seek the aid of the Federal Judiciary. See Brieffor Appellants 26, n. 14 (citing McGrain v. Daugherty
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  49. to official authority may support standing for a government itself or its duly authorized agents, see, e. g., Diamond v. Charles
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  50. ICC v. Oregon-Washington
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