Legal Opinion
Federal Election Commission v. NRA Political Victory Fund
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 6, 1994No. 93-1151PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
We granted certiorari in this case to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit holding that the congressionally mandated composition of petitioner Federal Election Commission (FEC), including as it did representatives of the Senate and House as nonvoting members, violated the separation-of-powers principle embodied in the Constitution. 512 U. S. 1218 (1994). We do not reach the merits of the question, however, because we conclude that the FEC is not authorized to petition for cer-tiorari in this Court on its own, and that the effort of the Solicitor…
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