Suing For Florida

How does Nelson think he has standing? We're operating a little blind without seeing the complaint, but the fact that someone has been injured doesn't create standing for anyone to file a federal lawsuit over it: he must be in some way injured. "[T]he irreducible constitutional minimum of standing ... [requires that] the plaintiff must have suffered an 'injury in fact' ? an invasion of a legally protected interest which is ... concrete and particularized...." Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992) (emphasis added); see also Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737, 756 (1984) ("respondents allege harm to a concrete, personal interest that can support standing in some circumstances" (emphasis added); Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727, 740 (1972) ("a party seeking review must allege facts showing that he is himself adversely affected"); Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 508 (1975) (a plaintiff "must allege specific, concrete facts demonstrating that the challenged practices harm him, and that he personally would benefit in a tangible way from the court's intervention") (emphasis added)).

What is Senator Nelson's concrete, personalized injury, and in what tangible way would he personally benefit from the relief sought?

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Nelson is IMO right morally, regardless of legal standing. This speaks to something I brought up awhile back. If the states are paying for the administration of these primaries, who the F#$% does a political parties think they are to do something like refusing to seat delegates or anything else remotely similar?

The party wants to spit in the face of the state that is good enough to have the primary largely on the state dime in the first place, by saying "well, we won't seat your delegates." Then the state should say this:

"Oh, OK. Do what you want with YOUR convention. Its your party, after all. Oh, and by the way, we'll just leave your party's nominee off our state's ballot, OK? because it's OUR state."

That would hasten this silly game of political chicken to its conclusion.

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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole