Clarence Thomas

“ The implications of the Court's novel theory that tax-collection injury alone justifies exercise of original jurisdiction are, in my view, both sweeping and troubling. An economic burden imposed by one State on another State's taxpayers will frequently affect the other State's fisc. (That will virtually always be the case, for example, with respect to income taxes; if State A takes actions that reduce the income of the taxpayers of State B, State B will collect less income-tax revenue.) ”

“ Even if I believed that Wyoming had standing to challenge the Oklahoma statute (which, for the reasons given by Justice SCALIA, I do not) , I would decline to exercise the Court's original jurisdiction here.
The Constitution provides that " [i] n all Cases . . . in which a State shall be a Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction." U.S.C.onst., Art. III, § 2, cl. 2. Congress, in turn, has provided that " [t] he Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States." ”

“ Louisiana, supra, 451 U.S., at 764-766, 101 S.Ct., at 2138-2139 (REHNQUIST, J., dissenting) . But it is also critical to examine the extent to which the sovereigns actually have clashed. Cf. Arizona v. ”