Raines v. Byrd - Significance, Political Ironies, Not A "case" Or "controversy", Counter-arguments In The Constitution And Coleman

Raines v. Byrd - Further Readings

Raines v. Byrd - Significance

Raines v. Byrd - Political Ironies

The line-item veto case involved political ironies. Usually Republicans and conservatives have been associated with spending cuts in general, and line-item veto proposals in particular, and indeed a Republican, Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, authored the legislation that would become the Line Item Veto Act. Yet President Bill Clinton, as a member of the executive branch if not as a Democrat, favore…

Raines v. Byrd - Not A "case" Or "controversy"

By a 7-2 majority, the Court ruled that the appellees lacked standing to sue. Chief Justice Rehnquist, who delivered the Court's opinion, noted that Article III, section 2 of the Constitution enumerates the types of "cases and controversies" which federal courts have power to decide. These include disagreements between citizens, a citizen and a state, a state and the federal government, and so on.…

Raines v. Byrd - Counter-arguments In The Constitution And Coleman

Justice Souter, joined by Justice Ginsburg, concurred in the judgment. He took issue merely with the Court's ruling that the injury claimed was not appropriately "personal" and "concrete" to fulfill Article III requirements. First of all, there were problems with the requirement than an injury was to be deemed "personal" and not official in nature, and Justice Souter held that "the official nature…

Raines v. Byrd - Impact

In the aftermath of Raines, responses were drawn on predictable lines. Coats, the act's author, called the ruling "a victory for common sense and fiscal integrity." Moynihan, one of the appellees, suggested that a future case would result in the act being ruled unconstitutional. On 31 October 1997, several months after the decision, Susan Page of USA Today assessed its impact in an article entitle…