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Too many courts are following the example of Pilate when plaintiffs have a case to bring. Rather than giving justice to just persons, the courts wash their hands by saying, “I don’t think you have ‘standing’ to bring your case to my court. Yes, it's an important case, but someone else needs to see to it. I'm washing my hands of it.”
Remarks Constitutional litigator Robert Barnes,
“This Pontius Pilate plea of the courts gives them the pretense and pretext to avoid cases and controversies precisely because they are true cases and controversies. It also affords them the means to protect their allies and impair their ideological adversaries.
“Hence, conservative courts embrace “standing” to defeat environmental groups, voting rights groups, housing discrimination groups, and the like to contesting state power
…while liberal courts embrace “standing” to prevent gun rights, property rights, and disfavored conservative causes from challenging state power.
"Both sides, of course, completely flip sides when it’s time for their side to challenge state action.
"Voters have no right to challenge 2020 election results, not even states. Yet Trump haters have standing to demand Trump not even be on the ballot?
"This is why “standing” is not a serious doctrine, nor should its advocates be taken seriously. The political shroud it provides cowardly courts to escape a case is precisely because the case is a controversy worthy of Constitutional redress, not because the case doesn’t even arise to such a controversy in the first place.”
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
