"Standing" is horribly abused. It is used to reject plaintiffs challenging government secrecy, because they can't prove they have standing unless they win the c

"Standing" is horribly abused. It is used to reject plaintiffs challenging government secrecy, because they can't prove they have standing unless they win the case -- a Catch-22. Similarly, if you are banned from doing something, you don't get standing unless you do it anyway, at great personal risk. Wanting to do it is not granted standing (though it should) Standing is the legal equivalent of launching the Challenger with known frozen o-rings just because it hadn't crashed yet