New Episode: Lake Shrimp
Bost v. IL and Case v. MT
Here’s the latest episode of Divided Argument, Lake Shrimp:
We didn't get the tariffs decision this week, but we discuss two of the opinions we did get -- Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections, a decision about standing and election law, and Case v. Montana, a rare Fourth Amendment case -- in a remarkably efficient episode (after a brief detour into Grok's jurisprudence and the announcement of a major gift to the Constitutional Law Institute).
Comments welcome.
I think some degree of creedeance has to be given to the argument that the conservative majority is happy with expansive standing in this case because the plaintiff is a Republican politician and because challenges to election law are Conservatively-valenced generally at the moment. It has explanatory power. Of course the evidence isn't available to prove.ir, but it explains the inconsistencies in recent standing decisions that you noted, which are otherwise difficult to explain.