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Originally Posted by MrSparkle001
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Not quite true. It can set precedent but that precedent has to be grounded in the constitution.
It became obvious to me as I read into the legal reasoning behind Roe vs Wade that it would never hold up to scrutiny. The only reason it survived for so long is because everyone was afraid to be the one to strike it down, in my opinion.
Read into it. Read into the odd "right of privacy" they used to set that precedent, which isn't even in the fourteenth amendment in the first place.
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Your cart and horse are backward. Once precedent is set by the court it becomes grounded in the constitution. Or that's how it used to be.
Loss of rights, tyranny of the minority, politicization of the court. These are things conservatives were against. Back when that word meant something.