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Rhodes Alumni Launch Campaign to Remove Justice Barrett from School’s Hall of Fame

JonathanTurley

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. There is nothing disingenuous in saying that a case is not super-precedent but still might not be overturned.

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No, Justices Did Not Commit Perjury in Their Confirmation Hearings When Asked About Roe

JonathanTurley

After all, in 1985, Alito wrote as a Justice Department lawyer that the Constitution does not contain a right protecting abortions. The first question would be the question that we’ve been discussing and that’s the issue of stare decisis. It was also supported by stare decisis but it did not matter.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Americans United for Life argues that “ Roe and Casey contradict the stare decisis values of consistency, dependability, and predictability and are entitled to minimal stare decisis respect.”

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

The Crime Report

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?

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