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To: nickcarraway
Scalia believes that precedents matter. There is a certain validity to this view in that courts must have some degree of consistency or the law becomes a casino rather than a reliable institution. People and businesses make critical choices and modify their behavior based on existing case law. This reliability matters.

In this case I think he is dead wrong.
18 posted on 06/07/2005 4:59:36 PM PDT by Ragnorak
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To: Ragnorak
In this case I think he is dead wrong.

Way wrong. He, in effect, signed his name to the anti-constitution coup that FDR promulgated with court-stacking.

22 posted on 06/07/2005 5:07:06 PM PDT by Haru Hara Haruko
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