JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2022

These signatories seek to sanction Barrett for holding opposing views on issues that have divided the court and the legal profession for decades. The point is only that the case is protected by the same principles of a stare decisis as other cases, which affords protection to precedent but does not make such cases inviolate.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 4, 2022

No less a legal figure as Stephen Colbert declared “They knew, that if they were honest, they wouldn’t get the job. After all, in 1985, Alito wrote as a Justice Department lawyer that the Constitution does not contain a right protecting abortions. It was also supported by stare decisis but it did not matter.

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Above The Law

JULY 3, 2025

Cue the unhappy clients; cue the even unhappier lawyer. And here’s a “not a Tom Girardi” story about a California lawyer being disbarred for making promises he could not keep (or never having any chance of having, because he couldn’t). She remembers practicing law in a kinder, gentler time. Any need to call the E&O carrier?

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