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You might want to learn how our legal system works. We are a Common Law legal system. Supreme Court precedent is as legally binding by stare decisis as the Constitution itself. The only thing that can overturn a Supreme Court decision is a Constitutional Amendment.
Uhhhh, with all due respect, maybe it is you who needs to brush up on Constitutional Law. While I certainly make no claim to being an expert on the matter myself, even I know that that "stare decisis" (i.e. "Let the Decision Stand"), is not binding on any future rulings. It might and often is a tradition, so to speak, but not set in stone.
The most noteable example (without commenting on the merits or not of the decision itself) being the finale' of Brown v. Board of Topeka Board of Education vis a vis the earlier Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
Uhhhh, with all due respect, maybe it is you who needs to brush up on Constitutional Law. While I certainly make no claim to being an expert on the matter myself, even I know that that "stare decisis" (i.e. "Let the Decision Stand"), is not binding on any future rulings. It might and often is a tradition, so to speak, but not set in stone.
It is binding on all lower courts, and seems to be relatively uncommon that the Supreme Court does not uphold their own opinion. Although yes, it can happen. They usually have a very good reason to go against their previous ruling. Precedent still sets the framework of our legal system, regardless if they court may one day reinterpret it.
And since the Supreme Court is the highest court, every other court in the US must rule based on the Supreme Court's ruling, whether they agree with it or not.
It is binding on all lower courts, and seems to be relatively uncommon that the Supreme Court does not uphold their own opinion. Although yes, it can happen. They usually have a very good reason to go against their previous ruling. Precedent still sets the framework of our legal system, regardless if they court may one day reinterpret it.
Had you qualified your earlier commentary to begin with, there would never have been any issue.
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And since the Supreme Court is the highest court, every other court in the US must rule based on the Supreme Court's ruling, whether they agree with it or not.
Yes, of course they do. That one is a no-brainer.
On a closely related tangent, the whole reason I responded to your post to begin with was because it just seems to be full of a certain supercilious and didactic tone. IMHO, it came across as borderline arrogance. If I misread, then I truly and sincerely apologize.
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