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PaulDavisThe1st
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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distil...
Somebody has to bring a new case that presents a novel legal theory/presentation that isn't clearly addressed by the ruling that forms the precedent.
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djoldman
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Additionally, one can argue that the state of the world has changed enough that assumptions made by the USC at the time of precedence require reversal.
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PaulDavisThe1st
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only in a
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sdenton4
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The court is stacked with so called originalists - history stopped in the eighteenth century.
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franga2000
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idk, they wouldn't have given the president nearly absolute immunity back then..
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IAmBroom
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Yes, they are insincere "originalists". This is known.
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