The REAL “Standing” Issue

If you've been reading pieces in the NYTimes & elsewhere saying the US supreme court term was actually quite mild, don't be fooled – as this excellent analysis by @steve_vladeck explains https://t.co/cMuZnYoAOp

— Ed Pilkington (@Edpilkington) July 3, 2023

In contrast, the “conservative” victories were enormous. Gutting race-based affirmative action in higher education, recognizing for the first time that certain business owners have a First Amendment right to refuse to provide services to members of groups whose behavior they oppose, tossing President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief program in a ruling that will make it easier for anyone going forward to challenge a dizzying array of federal policies, and the list goes on.

Donut. Hole. Clueless idiots chasing the wrong damned thing.

In the end, assessments of the Supreme Court’s work during its current term should privilege what the court has actually done (and not done) over how its efforts are superficially (and misleadingly) quantified through incomplete, inaccurate and ultimately unrevealing data. And when that’s the focus of our study, what becomes clear is just how powerful the six-justice conservative majority is — and just how significant its implications are for the current and future trajectory of American law.

True not just for statistical analyses.