Abortion Pill Case Highlights Supreme Court Flip on Who Can Sue

Conservative and liberal US Supreme Court justices have flipped their positions on standing over the years, with conservatives now more apt to find it exists in order to allow them to take up challenges to hot-button issues.

The change is evident in how the current conservative-led court has handled student loan forgiveness and separation of powers. The legal battle over the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone presents one of the clearest examples of how the justices can manage procedural questions to get at an issue and obtain desired results, or leave courts out of it altogether.

The standing question ...