Edwards v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Where a legislator’s “official influence upon the legislative process” is not impaired by alleged illegality, though one channel of power or source of information may be hampered, he has no standing to entangle the federal court in his general legislative difficulties. A legislator in the Kennedy type case has standing, however, where the court can limit its inquiry to the “discrete aspect” of the process by which a bill becomes law, meaning the original vote and post-enactment events denying a bill’s legal status. Id. at 1283.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Poovey v. Edmisten