Judge Kavanaugh’s hostility to #SCOTUS’s 1988 ruling in Morrison is not new.
Given how careful he is, though, @NateSilver538 is right that it’s quite revealing, per @mkraju’s reporting, that it’s his only response when asked to identify decisions that should be overruled...
Given how careful he is, though, @NateSilver538 is right that it’s quite revealing, per @mkraju’s reporting, that it’s his only response when asked to identify decisions that should be overruled...
To disagree with a decision (and say it’s “wrongly decided”) is one thing. But to say it should be overruled is to go a big step further—and to conclude that it’s so wrong that principles of state decisis (that #SCOTUS should generally be bound by its precedents) should give way.
*stare decisis.
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