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There is precedent for overturning precedent. Stare decisis is not supposed to mean that a decision is set in stone for eternity.

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  Certainly, but one of the deciding votes here won their seat very recently claiming precedent in this specific case made it settled law. That appears to have been a lie.
  • zdragnar 5y ago
    That is very much not what he claimed. We also don't yet know how he voted.
    • ceejayoz 5y ago
      https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abort... > A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/brett-kavanaugh-roe-v-wade-susan-collins-790632 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/brett-kavanaugh-ro... > “We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins told reporters. “He said that he agreed with what [Chief] Justice [John] Roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law.” Lisa Murkowski now openly claims to have been misled by the nominees, as well. https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/1521522918198591488 https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/152152291819859148...