Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections · ¶91

If only the Lyons Court had seen ft to create the sort of harm-free, status-based standing rule that the majority adopts today. The majority's reasoning—leading to today's holding that “[c]andidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns,” ante, at 82—would have been useful to Lyons. Lyons was a Los Angeles resident who had been unfairly targeted by police violence in the past and who wished to move freely about in the community. Armed with today's decision, Lyons might have successfully relied upon that status to claim a “concrete and particularized interest” in the rules that governed police officers' encounters with certain community residents, regardless of whether such police practices would have harmed him in…

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