Commonwealth v. Deshields

How courts have described this case

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• describing the Supreme Court’s analysis of legislator standing in Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811 (1997
• stating, in finding legislator standing to challenge the President’s decision to terminate a treaty, “[t]he crucial fact is that, on the record before us, there is no conceivable senatorial action that could likely prevent termination of the Treaty.”
• to show an injury in fact, “the plaintiff must point to an objective standard” embodying the harmed interest asserted, as opposed to “a diminution in a legislator’s effectiveness, subjectively judged by him or her”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).