In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old precedent in a low-profile sovereign immunity case, a move liberals see as a potential indication that the precedent set by Roe v. Wade could be under threat.
If you think the Supreme Court's conservative majority won't touch well-established legal precedent: think again.
He did not suggest that there was an urgent issue or functional problem with existing doctrine -- simply that it was wrong. "It is far more dangerous to overrule a decision only because five members of a later Court come to agree with earlier dissenters on a difficult legal question," he wrote."Today's decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next."
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