Texas Democratic Party v. Benkiser

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• concluding that a candidate who alleged that governmental action “threaten[ed] his election pro- spects” had established standing
• holding that “harm to election prospects” and “threatened loss of political power” sufficed to furnish a political party standing
• concluding that the plaintiff had associational standing on behalf of one of its members under Hunt and thus declining to address whether the plaintiff could sue on behalf of its other members
• holding that plaintiff political party had standing to sue to prevent opposing party from removing a candidate from the ballot and replacing him with a new candidate in part because obtaining that relief would improve the chance of winning for the party’s candidate
• recognizing political party’s associational standing “on behalf of its candidate” to challenge action that allegedly “threaten[ed] [the candidate’s] election prospects and campaign coffers”
• recognizing political party’s associational standing “on behalf of its candidate” to challenge action that allegedly “threaten[ed] [the candidate’s] election prospects and campaign coffers”

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