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To: CT-Freeper
Not that I agree at all with the FEC, but standing is quite an important element of a lawsuit, according to the Rules of Civil Procedure.

So WHO (We the American people?) have standing when it comes to that WE are "hiring" our President, hmmm???

45 posted on 10/23/2008 7:46:02 AM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco
So WHO (We the American people?) have standing when it comes to that WE are "hiring" our President, hmmm???

We are voting for a person who can send our sons and daughters off to war and make decisions that effect our national safety and well-being. Every American has standing in this regard. Is it unreasonable to expect that someone seeking the presidency should therefore provide evidence of their ability to satisfy a few simple requirements for such high office? The willingness to look the other way with Obama has reached ridiculous proportions.

64 posted on 10/23/2008 7:54:26 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: danamco; lafroste; Constitutionalist Conservative; RC2; antiRepublicrat
I don't know who would have standing. Saying that any voting citizen would have standing, because this deals with an election, may hold water. However, nobody is really directly harmed by Obama's running for President.

There are three requirements for standing: Injury, causation, and redressability.

Injury: The plaintiff must have suffered or imminently will suffer injury - an invasion of a legally protected interest which 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.

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.

Redressability: It must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that a favorable court decision will redress the injury.

See: Wikipedia's Discussion on Standing

74 posted on 10/23/2008 8:04:22 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan.)
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