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'''Standing''' is the legal right to bring a lawsuit. Only a person with something actually at stake in a dispute has standing to bring a lawsuit.  In federal court, legal standing is required by Article III, Section 2 of the [[U.S. Constitution]], which requires existence of a real case or controversy rather than a merely hypothetical dispute.

'''Standing''' is the legal right to bring a lawsuit. Only a person with something actually at stake in a dispute has standing to bring a lawsuit.  In federal court, legal standing is required by Article III, Section 2 of the [[U.S. Constitution]], which requires existence of a real case or controversy rather than a merely hypothetical dispute.

In cases having political significance, it is common for an evenly divided court to find that a [[liberal]] plaintiff has standing, while a [[conservative]] plaintiff does not.

In cases having political significance, it is common for an evenly divided court to find that a [[liberal]] plaintiff has standing, while a [[conservative]] plaintiff does not. A particularly infamous example of this was the various court's rationale of rejecting investigations into the clear evidence supplied by multiple groups of rampant voter fraud during the 2020 elections.

The Supreme Court has summarized this rule as follows:

The Supreme Court has summarized this rule as follows: