She is saying a lot of the right things, but the question is how will she feel about it in a year or two when she has to answer to nobody.
If her answers today are truthful and binding, she may in the end not be any worse than David Souter.
Yeah and the Dred Scott case was settled law until it wasn’t. What a lunatic
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“Partial birth” abortion is NOT settled law. What an idiot.
Dred Scott was settled law.
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i’m not up on all law issues...(hey i have a family, a life, and i am not a lawyer.) but everything i have seen or heard about this lady makes me think she has been phoning it in while she has been on the bench. she seems to just go along with whatever anyone else has already “settled”. maybe she is not smart enough to actually read and interpret the law, or perhaps she just is not interested in doing so, but it sure looks like she is a parrot.
And Plessy v. Ferguson was settled law...until Brown v. Board of Education. You could not have a minimum wage or child labor laws...until another Supreme Court changed its mind in the ‘30’s. All of the New Deal exceeded any prior reach of the Commerce Clause, until another Court changed its mind.
When it comes to the Supreme Court, precedent can change, sometimes for the better, usually not. Just because there is precedent for something doesn’t mean it isn’t wrong. The Court has repeatedly revisited issues and found earlier decisions to be wrongly decided. It would be great to see the Commerce Clause cases rolled back, that would significantly narrow the scope of Federal government activities, but that isn’t likely...but it COULD happen.
I believe more accurately she said it is settled law until it isn’t. (As she said was all settled law.)
Why wasn’t she asked: Then how is the Second Amendment not settled law?