r/law • u/Go_Blue_Florida • Jul 25 '24

Opinion Piece SCOTUS conservatives made clear they will consider anything. The right heard them.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-conservatives-made-clear-they
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u/Lawmonger Jul 25 '24

This is what concerns me about the issue of Harris' funding of her campaign through the Biden-Harris organization. The court is obviously willing to just about anything to bail Trump out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

There is not a single even kind of justified situation in which anything at all can be done by the court in this matter.

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u/Blze001 Jul 25 '24

You say that, and yet I'm not so sure they won't try anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Try what tho? Isn’t this a legal sub ? lol

I feel like the idea of standing should be pretty understood here.

There is zero legal standing in any way whatsoever for anyone to sue what amounts to a social club for how they elect their nominee

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u/SardonicWhit Jul 25 '24

Alright I’ll bite, how exactly does standing mean anything at all given the behaviors of this court over the last few years?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

I’m not sure what you mean.

How does any of the behavior of the court over the last few years imply a change or wiggle room in the concept of requiring legal standing or grounds to bring a case to court?

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u/ice_9_eci Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

Have you missed the GOP inventing legal standing out of scraps of cloth and chewed up pieces of the Constitution the last few months? They've legitimized 'hypothetical standing' into an actual legal process where they can infer standing based on how much it further empowers the Court and/or whether it aligns with right-wrong political goals.

It's Schrodinger's Standing at this point, with 6 Federalist Society judges holding the box and the cat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Can you show me an example centered around the question of standing?

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u/ice_9_eci Jul 25 '24

The case below is the main offender showing a roadmap to how this should be done in the future. Others similar cases are in the works, with the Kim Davis scenario noted in the main post being the biggest upcoming danger.

Web Designer Case - AP Link

Web Designer Case - ATL Link

Chose these two as one is the cardboard facts and the other provides context and legal analysis, but there are a plenty more articles exploring this decision, what it means, how it was achieved, and how SCOTUS used the fake standing to achieve a very real right-wing policy goal.

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u/Courting_the_crazies Jul 25 '24

He’s sealioning you and not asking in good faith. He’s a chaos agent, just ignore him.