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To: Defiant
We need a new proposition that says that when the people pass a proposition, if it is challenged in court, anyone who sponsored the proposition or who voted for it has standing to appear in court to defend it.

No State Law, however it is passed, has the slightest effect on the Federal Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, the legal arbiter of who has or does not have standing before the US Supreme Court is --- the U.S. Supreme Court; or possibly the U.S. Congress.

21 posted on 09/10/2010 8:20:42 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Publius6961

The state law, if drafted as I suggested, could give standing to people who will defend it properly to appear in federal court as parties in interest. The court can determine standing, but when the state law gives a substantive right to someone, that will provide them standing, just as a state law that gives the attorney general responsibility to pursue cases involving the state gives him standing.


28 posted on 09/10/2010 9:13:53 PM PDT by Defiant (Liberals care more about the Koran than they did about Terri Schiavo.)
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