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Precedent and the Supreme Court

Precedent and the Supreme Court

FromCivics 101


Precedent and the Supreme Court

FromCivics 101

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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*Donate to our podcast in June, and you'll be entered for a chance to win a $500 Airbnb gift card, and you'll get a cool Civics 101 sticker. When the Supreme Court decides how the law, and the Constitution, should be interpreted in a case, that interpretation becomes a precedent. Once that judicial precedent has been set, it's understood that the interpretation and its reasoning should be applied to similar cases in the future. So why might the Supreme Court reconsider its own precedent? And what happens when a precedent is modified, or overruled? We talk to Nina Varsava, a law professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies judicial precedent, and wrote the article, "Precedent on Precedent," and Rachel Rebouche, a law professor at Temple University who specializes in family law, health care law, and comparative family law, and has written about the potential impact of overturning Roe v Wade. 
Released:
Jun 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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