Nicholas Goldberg: Who says the Supreme Court shouldn't overrule its precedents? When it needs to, it should
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2022
4 minutes
As they confront the most serious challenge to Roe v. Wade in decades, abortion rights supporters are relying heavily on the legal principle known as stare decisis, which says that long-standing precedents must be followed and should not be overruled except under the most extraordinary circumstances.
After all, the argument goes, the case was decided in 1973, nearly half a century ago — so let's just leave it alone, OK? It's settled law, not to be tampered with.
In her defense of Roe before the Supreme Court in December, Julie Rikelman, the litigation director of the Center for Reproductive Rights, stated
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