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To: jamese777
McCain AND Palin ran as a ticket,

So what, the Constitution assumes the electoral votes are independent. And they are. It's only the modern practice of electors pledging who they would vote for that ties them together.

1) Injury: The plaintiff must have suffered or imminently will suffer injury—an invasion of a legally protected interest that is concrete and particularized. The injury must be actual or imminent, distinct and palpable, not abstract. This injury could be economic as well as non-economic.
(2) Causation: There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of, so that the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant and not the result of the independent action of some third party who is not before the court.
(3) Redressability: It must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that a favorable court decision will redress the injury.

I thought redressability was a separate issue from "standing".

Isn't causation something to be determined at trial?

109 posted on 03/26/2010 7:15:16 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

I thought redressability was a separate issue from “standing”.

Isn’t causation something to be determined at trial?


Why are you trying to equate redressability and causation?


110 posted on 03/26/2010 9:23:11 PM PDT by jamese777
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