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Right Wing Freaks Out as Former Supreme Court Justice Argues to Repeal the Second Amendment

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lawhawk3/27/2018 1:40:45 pm PDT

re: #132 EPR-radar

For now. Surely you have to admit that SCOTUS in the future could more or less completely sweep away all existing gun control, federal state and local, dependent entirely on the ideological makeup of the court at the time relevant cases are decided.

That’s what happens when SCOTUS has no respect for its own precedents.

That’s also how we got from Dred Scot to Brown v. Board of Education.

The court can and has overturned prior decisions, whether it is around civil rights or reproductive health or even voting rights.

In recent years, the court has taken to narrowly construing decisions so that they have limited effect, rather than overturn outright prior decisions.