A case being argued on Monday, opens new tab involves one of the precedents now in the crosshairs before the court, whose 6-3 conservative majority has moved American law dramatically rightward in recent years ...
The GOP-majority Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, one more step in the president's plot to take away citizenship for the US-born children of immigrants.
-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) Dec 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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@#9 ... Prior decisions are not as absolute and overturning them should be done when their precedence is wrong. ...
Overturning prior decisions is a significant thing to do.
The evidence that the precedence of those prior decisions is wrong should be equally significant.
And not going to some bizarre medieval law as precedence.
Past and Precedence: Abortion Law in the Middle Ages and Its Use to Overturn Roe v. Wade (Medieval Submission) (2022)
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But when the right-wing of the current SCOTUS is in a corner, they seem to grasp at straws.
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