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To: pinochet

SCOTUS has always been reluctant to overturn their predecessors.


6 posted on 11/20/2016 6:55:03 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

Plessy v Ferguson overturned by Brown v Board of Education

Abortion is a much greater wrong and it needs to be righted.

But, as noted by others, the Supreme Court can only give this decision back to the individual states. The Court cannot make abortion illegal.


7 posted on 11/20/2016 6:57:23 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Don Corleone
SCOTUS has always been reluctant to overturn their predecessors.

Get a few more actual constitutionalists on SCOTUS and that may change - they probably wouldn't make it a Federal crime as most States determine how to handle murder cases, but taking away the "constitutional right" crap would have a huge impact.

15 posted on 11/20/2016 7:03:49 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Don Corleone

they shouldn’t decide cases based on predecessors, but by whether it’s constitutional or not - period. Leave their stupid feelings or ideas what is best out of it!

Judges past and present are human and have made mistakes and purposeful bad choices at times.


42 posted on 11/20/2016 7:42:30 AM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Don Corleone
SCOTUS has always been reluctant to overturn their predecessors.

Well, it's high time that practice changes for stupid liberal activist decisions from the past.

84 posted on 11/20/2016 1:52:44 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: Don Corleone

US Supreme Court has overturned “itself” around 15 times since the year 2000 alone; happens more than what people think.


85 posted on 11/20/2016 2:04:22 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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