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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.”
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
