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Nobody--yourself included--wants us to honor every bad precedent. Should we be stuck with Citizens United for all of eternity? Of course not--everybody wants th
by marcusverus 4y ago
Nobody--yourself included--wants us to honor every bad precedent. Should we be stuck with Citizens United for all of eternity? Of course not--everybody wants that sumbitch overturned!. Pretending that you believe precedent to be sacred is both silly and transparently self-serving.
> The law was already settled on this issue.
The idea of "settled law" is a rhetorical device and nothing more. SCOTUS has been overturning precedent on an almost annual basis for centuries[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_States_Supreme_Court_decisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_State...