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Precedents and Stare Decisis in Constitutional Adjudication

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The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled its own constitutional precedents more than 230 times since 1810, most notably in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health (2022).

Why this is interesting

You might think a Supreme Court ruling is final, but sometimes the Court reverses itself. How can the law both honor the past and change the future?