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To: Robert_Paulson2
Abortion may become more restricted or less, but the stare decisis principle guarantees that established case law will NOT be overturned, ESPECIALLY after so many dedades of being established in so many jurisdictions and that goes beyond just a federal level.

All it takes is to get a couple more justices like Thomas and Scalia on the court, and yes, it will be overturned, right before your eyes. All they have to do is snap their fingers, and it's done. What's to stop them?

Politics may prevent these types of justices from getting to the court (a lot hangs on Specter's defeat in November), but the "stare decisis principle" won't.

592 posted on 07/14/2004 4:09:48 PM PDT by inquest (Judges are given the power to decide cases, not to decide law)
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To: inquest; All
"All they have to do is snap their fingers, and it's done. What's to stop them?"

Ahh, so this is okay with you if it is something YOU support, eh?

No wonder it is so easy, even today, for dictators to take and hold power.

595 posted on 07/14/2004 4:15:17 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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