The Weekly Standard looks into the question that’s on the mind of those who are stunned and alarmed by the mandates and power grab from the executive branch over ObamaCare. The magazine talked with Sen. Mike Lee about the issue of legal standing to sue.

“It’s not immediately apparent to me who it is that would have standing to show that they would be injured by this,” Lee said. “The people directly affected by the employer mandate are employers. But I would imagine that the administration would argue, if sued on this by an employer…, ‘You can’t show you’ve been injured by this. We’re letting you off the hook.'”

Many of the president’s other changes to the law–such as allowing insurers to sell plans outlawed by Obamacare and delaying the individual mandate for those who had their insurance plans canceled–have similarly relieved burdens.

But why couldn’t U.S. taxpayers, who will be stuck paying for these executive actions, sue the president? “The general public, the taxpayers, are hurt in that this makes that much more unstable and that much more unaffordable a program that was already unstable and unaffordable. But there is alongstanding jurisprudential rule that one cannot establish standing merely by virtue of one’s status as a taxpayer, absent certain rare circumstances,” Lee said. 

So, the president continues to act unilaterally and the long arm of government continues to grow over the citizenry.