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ScorusBlog ^ | June 20, 2019

[Covenantor]

Thanks for the welcome news.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the link to the opinion. I am loving this so much:

Abandoning offended observer standing will mean only a return to the usual demands of Article III, requiring a real controversy with real impact on real persons to make a federal case out of it.

[mewzilla]

Abandoning offended observer standing will mean only a return to the usual demands of Article III, requiring a real controversy with real impact on real persons to make a federal case out of it.

Cue the Hallelujah Chorus!

[fatima]

Thanks SMGFan.:)

[Albion Wilde]

This decision is powerful and will have lasting effects. Well done, SCOTUS!

In a large and diverse country, offense can be easily found. Really, most every governmental action probably offends somebody. No doubt, too, that offense can be sincere, sometimes well taken, even wise. But recourse for disagreement and offense does not lie in federal litigation. Instead, in a society that holds among its most cherished ambitions mutual respect, tolerance, self-rule, and demo- cratic responsibility, an “offended viewer” may “avert his eyes,” Erznoznik v. Jacksonville, 422 U. S. 205, 212 (1975), or pursue a political solution. Today’s decision represents a welcome step toward restoring this Court’s recognition of these truths, and I respectfully concur in the judgment.
—Justice Gorsuch

[Jacquerie]

You nailed it.

Just as Rome never had a king after the overthrow of the last Tarquin, yet breathed her last under unlimited Emperors, America will never have an unlimited, absolute monarch. Instead, it has an unlimited, absolute Supreme Court.

[nesnah]

Outstanding statement but Justice Gorsuch.