• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    None of this addresses my point. There isn’t the political power to do it.

    And even if there was, the court has already essentially overturned precedent as a concept. That can’t just be rolled back without completely reworking the court, which…see my first point…

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      5 months ago

      Yes, it depends up getting people out to vote, especially in mid-terms.

      Precedent is literally just a tradition that’s agreed upon, there’s nothing binding judges to adhere to it, which is why the supreme court was so easily able to ignore it.

      So in that sense it’s a double-edged sword, it’s just as easy for judges to rule by precedent as it is for them to not, it’s always been this way.