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Supreme Court: Diminished Standing

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, August 02 2012

The extent of the damage from bad decisions can sometimes extend beyond the original, obvious victims. Such was the case in the wake of Chief Justice John Roberts’ supremely ill-considered decision allowing ObamaCare to be implemented as a “tax.” Lost in the shuffle, after the decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, was the Supreme Court’s subsequent failure to protect state sovereignty from the ravages of a renegade court. While the authority of individual states did not suffer broad or permanent damage, the principle of federalism did take another unfortunate blow. The suit against…

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