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Are right and left changing where they stand on standing?

By Alliance Alert

Ilya Somin writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "Traditionally, conservative scholars and judges have advocated narrow views of constitutional 'standing': the level of 'interest' litigants must have at stake in the outcome of a case in order to give them a legal right to sue. For their part, liberals have usually promoted the opposite view: constitutional rights should not be denied based on these sorts of technicalities . . . [I]t is more likely that views on standing will no longer closely track ideological divisions. Nothing about conservative ideology as such necessarily requires narrow standing rules, and nothing about liberal ideology necessarily requires broad ones."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).