Court Opinion

ID: 9813343
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 23:00:48.121841+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:28:25.197530
License: Public Domain

WILSON, District Judge,
concurring:
I completely agree with the court’s opinion. I write separately, however, to note my view that there is an additional, equally fundamental, basis supporting our result. Stripped of its pretense, this suit is nothing more than an intramural contest over the allocation of state funds. The authority to entertain a lawsuit such as this- one, which gives a state’s warring factions a federal forum in which to compel the reallocation of state funds, is to place in federal court hands, the power to Balkanize state government. I believe it is implicit in our federal system that federal courts lack that authority.