Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections · ¶59

Indeed, our standing precedents make crystal clear that, absent a showing of particularized harm, these sorts of fair- process grievances must be resolved through the political branches. For it is in those branches “where democratic debate can occur and a wide variety of interests and views can be weighed.” Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, 602 U. S., at 380. By contrast, the exercise of judicial power, “which can so profoundly affect the lives, liberty, and property of those to whom it extends,” is a “tool of last resort,” to be invoked only “when the question is raised by a party whose interests entitle him to raise it.” Valley Forge, 454 U. S., at 473–474 (internal quotation marks omitted).

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