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To: Usagi_yo
Doctrines the Courts use to dodge cases too hot to handle:

"Political Question."
"Ripeness."
"Standing to sue."
"Failure to exhaust Administrative Remedies."
"Non-justiciable."
Et cetera, ad nauseam.



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3 posted on 10/28/2013 7:53:24 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Doctrines the Courts use to dodge cases too hot to handle

As they should. "Hot" issues are the ones it is most important to leave to the elected branches of government.

When the liberal judges of the Warren Court sought to get the courts to overrule the President and the Congress on issues like the Vietnam War, it was the conservative justices who pushed back with the doctrines of standing, mootness, political question, exhaustion and the like. And it was good that they succeeded to the extent they did.

4 posted on 10/28/2013 8:24:23 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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