Today the U.S. Supreme Court Clerk docketed the certiorari petition in Arpaio v. Obama, No. 15-643.  Here are the first and last paragraphs of Judge Janice Brown's concurring opinion in the D.C. Circuit, No. 14-5325.

Today we hold that the elected Sheriff of the nation's fourth largest county, located mere miles from our border with Mexico, cannot challenge the federal government's deliberate nonenforcement of the immigration laws. I agree with my colleagues that the state of the law on standing "requires, or at least counsels, the result here reached." Haitian Refugee Ctr. v. Gracey, 809 F.2d 794, 798 (D.C. Cir. 1987). But, recognizing that Sheriff Arpaio's claims reflect the widespread perception that the administration's prosecutorial discretion meme is constitutionally problematic, I write separately to emphasize the narrowness of today's ruling, and note the consequences of our modern obsession with a myopic and constrained notion of standing.

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No doubt the modern approach to standing serves to reduce our caseload. But there are much more important matters at stake. "Some [litigants] need bread; others need Shakespeare; others need their rightful place in the national society--what they all need is processors of law who will consider the people's needs more significant than administrative convenience." Id. at 1005 (quoting Edmond Cahn, Law in the Consumer Perspective, 112 U. PA. L. REV. 1, 13 (1963)). Our approach to standing, I fear, too often stifles constitutional challenges, ultimately elevating the courts' convenience over constitutional efficacy and the needs of our citizenry.

Sounds to me like an invitation to the Supreme Court to take this up.