We’ve all seen the Left’s caterwauling about how the Supreme Court, now with a working originalist and textualist majority for the first time in my life, has thrown away its “legitimacy,” largely because of its supposedly crude and partisan disregard for stare decisis.
The March 2, 2005, New York Times issue shows that for many on the left stare decisis is the first refuge of scoundrels. One editorial cheers the Supreme Court for overruling an earlier decision that had allowed execution of minors, while another editorial urges the Court to use its establishment clause precedents to banish the Ten Commandments from the public square. Jim Dueholm
The March 2, 2005, New York Times issue shows that for many on the left stare decisis is the first refuge of scoundrels. One editorial cheers the Supreme Court for overruling an earlier decision that had allowed execution of minors, while another editorial urges the Court to use its establishment clause precedents to banish the Ten Commandments from the public square. Jim Dueholm
It's hard to get someone to remember something when their salary depends on them forgetting it.