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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 on Nostr: Not without standing. You have to have suffered an actual injury, what the ...

Not without standing. You have to have suffered an actual injury, what the Constitution calls a "case or controversy"; you can't just sue because there's a law you don't like, which I think may be what you're asking. This comes up a lot; this is why, for example, the lawsuit by the doctors who were unhappy about the existence of mifepristone got thrown out. Mr. Wynn has standing because he sued the Associated Press and his lawsuit actually got dismissed on the basis that he couldn't meet the actual-malice element announced by Sullivan. He didn't just decide he doesn't like Sullivan, though that's almost certainly the reason he filed the initial lawsuit in the first place. But at this point he's suffered a cognizable injury.