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To: CharacterCounts; All
"Definition of Standing:...STANDING: The legal right to initiate a lawsuit. To do so, a person must be sufficiently affected by the matter at hand, and there must be a case or controversy that can be resolved by legal action...."

CharacterCounts, as a citizen of this country, whose life is DIRECTLY affected by the actions Barack Obama, do you disagree that I do NOT have "standing"?

If this case is not examined in court, then it will NOT be on the basis of a "lack of standing", it is going to be on the basis of cowardice and political expedience.

179 posted on 12/08/2008 8:06:17 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: rlmorel
CharacterCounts, as a citizen of this country, whose life is DIRECTLY affected by the actions Barack Obama, do you disagree that I do NOT have "standing"?

Its not me who is disagreeing. I am merely stating what the requirements have always been to get into court. Don't shoot the messenger, because you don't like the message.

In order to have standing you must be able to allege in injury greater than the rest of us. If you are just one of 360 million people claiming injury, you lack standing. This not my opinion - I am merely telling the law. The purpose of the law is to prevent groups from tying up the legal system by filing countless lawsuits. In 2000, the court dismissed a couple of private citizens lawsuits against against Bush for the same reason of no standing.

388 posted on 12/08/2008 9:39:33 AM PST by CharacterCounts (1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
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