Professor Eric Segall has a particularly strong bead on the incoherence of the concept of standing. Iconically ascribed to the phrase "cases and controversies" in the federal constitution it is in reality one of the masks judges wear as they pick their spots.
Most recently the Supreme Court used the sanitized phrase "no judicially cognizable interest" to strike down Texas's plainly partisan lawsuit to disenfranchise millions of voters in Pennsylvania and other swing states so as to keep Donald Trump in the White House. Instead the court spurned candor and turned to standing. - gwc
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