Apologies if this is the wrong community for this! Feel free to delete if it is.
Also, this is a big blow to lgbt anti discrimination but it also is a blow to a lot of others as well The way this decision is going to backfire and the fact it will be able to applied against not just lgbt people has not been thought through, at all.
How did this pass muster as having standing?
You’re asking about the same court who found standing for striking down the student debt thing?
in other words, this iteration of SCOTUS finds standing insofar as it fits their political whims regardless of actual legal grounding (unfortunately).
The same way that the Texas court found standing to ban the abortion drug because “the doctors suing might someday have a patient who took the drug and had a negative reaction requiring them to treat her.”
They invent standing wherever it’s required to get their agenda passed.