Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the high court shouldn’t blindly follow precedents to guide rulings if the established rulings go against what the law says or doesn’t line up with the nation’s legal traditions.
“At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis,” Thomas said Thursday while speaking at an event at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C.
“And it’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”
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