Constitutional Law October 4, 2004

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Constitutional LawOctober 4, 2004

• Separation of Powers
• Judicial Power
• Introduction
• Case or Controversy
• Rationales
• Components
• Advisory Opinions
• Standing

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Recap

• President Foreign Policy
• War powers and Iraq
• Incidental C in C powers
• Interbranch Conflict
• Inevitability Extremes
• Focus on Executive
• Executive Privilege
• Essential functions balancing test
• Application

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3. Executive Immunity

• Nixon v. Fitzgerald
• Official conduct ?Absolute immunity
• Threat of suit might impact judgment
• Lightning rod for suits
• Clinton v. Jones
• Private conduct pre-office ? No immunity
• Threat of suit wont affect official conduct
• Wont directly interfere with functions
• Lesser officials ?Qualified immunity

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4. Impeachment

• Process
• House Impeaches (indictment)
• Senate Tries
• Chief Justice Presides
• History
• Presidents
• Judges
• Issues
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
• What Kind of Trial?

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e. The Clinton Case

• Confluence of Decisions
• IC Investigation (Broad Lengthy)
• Immunity (Discovery Perjury Charge)
• Privilege (Disputed)
• Impeached but not Convicted
• Sufficiency of Charges
• Implications for Separation of Powers

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Legislative/Executive Power
Foreign Affairs
Domestic
Constitutional Authority
War Commerce Consent
Congress
C in C Receive Treaty
Makes Law
Empower Set Standards Procedures
Congress
President
President
Command Represent
Appoint Control Remove
Takes Care
Officers
Officers
Implement
Enforce Administer
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III. Judicial PowerA. Introduction

• Judicial Independence
• Internal limits (Justiciability)
• External limits
• Internal Limits
• Case or controversy requirements
• Political question doctrine
• Constitutional Prudential Limits
• Marburys Concept of Judicial Power
• Judicial Restraint

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B. Case or Controversy

• Rationales
• Article III
• Appropriate form for judicial resolution
• Components
• No Advisory Opinions
• Standing
• Ripeness (Not Yet)
• Mootness (No Longer)

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3. Advisory Opinions

• Early Precedents
• Letter of Justices
• Hayburns Case
• Abstract Questions
• Not appropriate for judicial resolution
• Sound principle
• Possibility of Revision
• Judicial decisions are final
• Incompatible with independence

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4. Standing

• General
• Who may sue
• Importance
• Manipulation
• Components
• Constitutional (link)
• Prudential (link)
• Allen v. Wright (link)

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4.b.i. Constitutional Standing

• P must Suffer Injury in Fact
• Distinct Palpable (not abstract)
• Actual or Imminent (not speculative)
• Causation (fairly traceable)
• Intervening Actors
• Compare Proximate Cause
• Redressed by Favorable Ruling
• Alternative Causes
• Linkage with Causation

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4.b.ii. Prudential Standing

• No Rights of Third Parties
• No Generalized Grievances
• Substantive Nexus
• Zone of Interests
• Taxpayer

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4.c. Allen v. Wright