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That is not correct. In federal court the exception was the Hollister case, Judge Robertson acknowledged standing and dismissed the case for an alleged failure to state a claim. His reasoning, I would submit, does not fully withstand scrutiny. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the appeal short shrift and SCOTUS did not treat the ensuing Cert Petition seriously.

Judge Robertson attempted to sanction lead attorney John D. Hemenway, a World War II and Cold War vet (the latter as an FSO against the communists first in Berlin and then against the Soviets in Moscow). He was the first conservative ever elected President of the American Foreign Service Association or AFSA, whereupon the Kennedies and the late Wayne Hays went after him viciously and forced him down and into retirement as part of their effort to turn the Foreign Service into a corrupt patronage operation of the Boston style. After serving well in the Army in WWII he received a scholarship to the Naval Academy, where he did will an won a Rhodes Scholarship, which, unlike Bill Clinton, he finished and took his degree.

The sanctions attempt was in violation of the law and, consequently, had to be withdrawn when the illegality was pointed out, with Judge Robertson having to face Hemenway's being an accomplished and distinguished American.

Judge Robertson is not a bad judge, and is a very decent person whom I have known for many years, going back to the Civil Rights Movement in which we were both involved. He was very active in and served as a leader of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which was created by the ABA at the urging of JFK when he and his brother suddenly became pro Civil Rights. I am afraid his old loyalties from the Movement betrayed him into blindness in the Hollister case.

I believe that leftists will find levers for standing that leftist judges, who are influenced by the left wing dominance of the lamestream functioning as the house organ of the leviathan state, will respond to.