You Can Kiss Precedent Goodbye Thanks To The Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority
Stare decisis only matters when it’s convenient for this version of the high court.
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I think the most conservative justices dislike much of modern American law and are actively changing it. They aren’t going to let precedent get in their way.
— Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School, commenting in an interview with Reuters on the likelihood that the conservative justices of the Supreme Court, with their new 6-3 majority, will continue to overturn and possibly even ignore existing precedent to make our laws to conform with their vision for the country.
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