Supreme Court Hands A Victory to the Democrats

Recently I wrote about Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's attempts to avoid invalidating improper voter registrations. The District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Secretary Brunner was thwarting the Helping America Vote Act which requires verification of voter registrations. However, the Supreme Court tossed out the ruling. The nation's highest court found that the Republican Party did not have standing to make the Ohio Secretary of State obey the law. As a result, they tossed out the suit without regard to its merits. The result may be entirely proper. Standing is a legal concept which is used to sort out interfering intermeddlers from parties who have are directly interested in a controversy. On the other hand, they might just be trying to make up for Bush v. Gore.