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To: kevkrom

She’s getting smacked around by the “standing” issue. She has no inherent right to demand a legal investigation of anyone, and unless she can show specific harm done to her personally and directly, she has no standing to file the suit.


Could someone please explain to me why an American citizen has “no standing” when an illegally elected POTUS would impact me personally and directly through any legislation that he signs or EO that he puts in place. I do not understand the parsing of language here.


135 posted on 01/31/2013 10:55:16 AM PST by MWestMom (Will Americans stop someone who views our children as "collateral damage" in their quest for power?)
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To: MWestMom
Could someone please explain to me why an American citizen has “no standing” when an illegally elected POTUS would impact me personally and directly through any legislation that he signs or EO that he puts in place. I do not understand the parsing of language here.

Because that would affect everyone in the country equally, meaning that it could be resolved through the electoral process (as one of my law professors put it, "if everyone has standing, then no one has standing"). Someone with a unique personal stake would have standing (Mitt Romney, for example).

146 posted on 01/31/2013 2:42:38 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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