Stare decisis is Latin for “let the decision stand.” Essentially, it is a legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases with similar fact patterns in similar manners …. . . like Dred Scott v. Sandford? or Plessy v. Ferguson?
Exactly! When I was an undergrad student in college I had a government class as a part of my major and the professor was a hard core conservative but he liked to have real honest debate in the class and you had to defend your position with logic, I feel... didn’t count.
We were discussing SCOTUS decisions and Roe V. Wade came up and we had some pretty hard core leftist in this class who were not afraid to speak up in a debate and conservatives as well who fired back. When he announced the next case Roe V. Wade for discussion they started up and he said fine, defend your position and do it based on the decision rendered by the majority justices at the time and then he started reading the majority decision aloud and the conservatives in the class were whispering were these justices on an LSD trip when they wrote this pile of festering non-sense?
Finally one of the biggest and loudest liberals in the class stood up and said professor the majority decision is deluded cannot be backed with legal precedent, it’s not logical or even based in reality or law, there is no way I can get to that point using the majority decision, but I still think abortion should be legal and quietly sat down and hung his head. The professor took his victory and moved on to the next court case.