Vasen v. United States

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• holding a statute constitutional on its face when, although the statute might be unconstitutional as applied to private actors, the Court determined that it was constitutional as applied to public officials, and the parties challenging the law were public officials
• this Court should never ‘“formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied’ ”
• \The delicate power of pronouncing an Act of Congress unconstitutional is not to be exercised with reference to hypothetical cases thus imagined.\
• the delicate power of pronouncing a statute unconstitutional is not to be exercised with reference to hypothetical cases thus imagined
• a litigant must generally assert his own constitutional rights and immunities
• a litigant must generally assert his own constitutional rights and immunities

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