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    Post Interesting Fox News Article on Landmark 1958 Supreme Court Decision

    In September 1958, sixty years ago next week, the United States Supreme Court finally earned its hard-fought reputation as a co-equal branch of the federal government, in a courtroom drama filled with urgency and uncertainty.

    For perhaps the first time, the high court put muscle behind its mandate, asserting in unequivocal terms that its interpretation of the Constitution was the "supreme law of the land," and ordering immediate state compliance.
    Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that the states are bound by the Court's decisions and must enforce them even if the states disagreed with them.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-politics.html

    Interesting historical flashback from 60 years ago... in what was the beginning of the very liberal Warren court of the 1960s, the Supreme Court ruled that only its interpretation of the Constitution was valid, and that the states must bow down and submit to its authority if any state or local laws contradicted the high court's edicts.

    That original case was the impetus used to force the southern states to allow full-blown integration of black children into all public schools, and was the basis of many landmark Supreme Court decisions since.

    It's kind of ironic, because now (for the past 30 years) where the conservatives have held a razor-thin majority on the Supreme Court, and possibly moreso after Trump is done making appointments, they now get to "ram" their edicts down the throats of the states and the states have to accept it, which could be good news for gun rights.

    What's remarkable, as that Fox News article pointed out near the end, is how the public now seems to accept the Supreme Court's mandate to definitively decide the law. As Justice Breyer pointed out: "What was remarkable about it is that even though vast numbers of Americans thought it was wrong," and even though Breyer himself thought it wrongly decided, "people followed it. In other places, there would have been guns and bullets. The fact that no blood was shed after Bush v. Gore, is what makes America great."
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    I know this off your track here, But I find the left's insistence on adhering to stare decisis in a couple abortion cases, why don't they insist on it in other cases like slavery for example? They always have a double standard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1 Patriot-of-many View Post
    I know this off your track here, But I find the left's insistence on adhering to stare decisis in a couple abortion cases, why don't they insist on it in other cases like slavery for example? They always have a double standard.
    Well, slavery didn't really end until the passage of the 14th Amendment, did it not?

    So the earlier Supreme Court only had the earlier amendments to work with, which tolerated slavery. It wasn't until the Constitution was updated that the Supreme Court revised its opinions in turn.

    But other than groundbreaking changes like constitutional amendments, yes, the SCOTUS does tend to like to follow precedent and honor earlier decisions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LAGC View Post
    Well, slavery didn't really end until the passage of the 14th Amendment, did it not?

    So the earlier Supreme Court only had the earlier amendments to work with, which tolerated slavery. It wasn't until the Constitution was updated that the Supreme Court revised its opinions in turn.

    But other than groundbreaking changes like constitutional amendments, yes, the SCOTUS does tend to like to follow precedent and honor earlier decisions.
    Officially, yes.

    Unofficially, no.

    Slavery still exits in the US. It's called Welfare. The Dims instituted it to keep blacks subservient to them and to the government.

    Prior to that, Southern Dimocrats founded the KKK to keep blacks in line. When that started to fall out of favor, they switched tactics and started the welfare system.

    As long a black people live off welfare and other forms of government assistance, they will always be slaves to somebody else. That's why the Dims are always going to fight people who try to help the black person become self-sufficient.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alismith View Post
    Officially, yes.

    Unofficially, no.

    Slavery still exits in the US. It's called Welfare. The Dims instituted it to keep blacks subservient to them and to the government.

    Prior to that, Southern Dimocrats founded the KKK to keep blacks in line. When that started to fall out of favor, they switched tactics and started the welfare system.

    As long a black people live off welfare and other forms of government assistance, they will always be slaves to somebody else. That's why the Dims are always going to fight people who try to help the black person become self-sufficient.


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    Quote Originally Posted by LAGC View Post
    Well, slavery didn't really end until the passage of the 14th Amendment, did it not?

    So the earlier Supreme Court only had the earlier amendments to work with, which tolerated slavery. It wasn't until the Constitution was updated that the Supreme Court revised its opinions in turn.

    But other than groundbreaking changes like constitutional amendments, yes, the SCOTUS does tend to like to follow precedent and honor earlier decisions.
    All 4 libs on the court undercut Mcdonald and Heller(individual right) every chance they can. Even after swearing it was settled law in front of their confirmation hearings. You do recall Obama's two picks right? Name one case since, Sotomayer and Kagan have upheld second amendment rights on the court? Precedent means absolutely nothing to them if it's affront to their ideology, in fact I'll go further The US Constitution means nothing to them as written either. So why should Constitutionals uphold ideologically driven snivel because it's recent precedent?
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