I agree. The SCOTUS has long been far more driven by the doctrine of stare decisis than by the Constitution and the clear expressed intent of its authors. In my opinion, stare decisis is just idiotic, because if an error in judgment is made, and then depended upon as “precedent”, that error becomes compounded and magnified as the doctrine of stare decisis locks in the error and forces future courts to promulgate that error.
Of course, leftists have relied upon this doctrine for much of their twisting of the Constitution on the road to implementing their agenda. They first invent a non-existent constitutional “right”, and then cast the Constitution aside and build a wall around their legal contrivance to prevent any further scrutiny of it, and that wall is called “stare decisis.”
I agree about stare decisis leading to compounded errors. It reminds me of the baseball Hall of Fame argument. If Harold Baines, a pretty good ballplayer, is in, then we have to let in a whole bunch of pretty good ballplayers who were just as good. And it becomes the Hall of Pretty Good.