BUCKLEY v. VALEO
Per Curiam
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by several months than it was at the time the Court of
Appeals ruled. Congress was understandably most concerned with obtaining a final adjudication of as many
issues as possible litigated pursuant to the provisions of
§ 437h. Thus, in order to decide the basic question
whether the Act's provision for appointment of the members of the Commission violates the Constitution, we
believe we are warranted in considering all of those
aspects of the Commission's authority which have been
presented by the certified questions." 8
Party litigants with sufficient concrete interests at
stake may have standing to raise constitutional questions
of separation of powers with respect to an agency designated to adjudicate their rights. Palmore v. United
States, 411 U. S. 389 (1973); Glidden Co. v. Zdanok,
370 U. S. 530 (1962); Coleman v. Miller, 307 U. S. 433
(1939). In Glidden, of course, the challenged adjudication had already taken place, whereas in this case appellants' claim is of impending future rulings and determinations by the Commission. But this is a question of
ripeness, rather than lack of case or controversy under
Art. III, and for the reasons to which we have previously
158 With
respect to the Commission's power under 26 U. S. C.
§ 9008 (d) (3) (1970 ed., Supp. IV) to authorize excessive convention
expenditures (question 8 (f)), the fact that appellants in the Court
of Appeals may have focused their attack primarily or even exclusively upon the asserted lack of standards attendant to that
power, see n. 157, supra, does not foreclose them from challenging
that power in relation to Congress' method of appointment of the
Commission's members. Question 8 (f) asks whether vesting the
Commission with this power under 26 U. S. C. § 9008 (1970 ed.,
Supp. IV) violates "such rights," which by reference to question 8
includes "the rights of [appellants] under the constitutional separation of powers." Since the certified questions themselves provide
our jurisdictional framework, § 437h (b), the separation-of-powers
aspect of appellants' attack on 26 U. S. C. § 9008 (d) (3) (1970 ed.,
Supp. IV) is properly before this Court.
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