Anonymous #1 1w

What can be considered “a mistake” can later be rectified by a different court in some 30 40 50 years and what can be considered settled law can later be overruled so scotus is literally never wrong because there’s nothing to hold it accountable

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Anonymous #1 1w

SCOTUS can and does make mistakes. Every time SCOTUS overturns their own precedent they are acknowledging where a mistake was made.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Dred Scott, Trump v. U.S., honestly it’s not hard to keep going.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

Dred Scott is another good one, I’m ashamed I didn’t immediately think of it as a history major. I’m not familiar off top dome with trump v US though

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Anonymous #2 1w

It’s a pretty recent case (decided in 2024 iirc) that WILDLY expanded presidential immunity beyond anything that’s suggested by past precedent or constitutional language. Chief Justice Roberts lost any respect I previously had for him when I read that opinion.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Also don’t be embarrassed for not thinking of Dred Scott, your examples were excellent and also I think about this case an inordinate amount because of its relevance to ongoing disputes about birthright citizenship (which is kind of a pet topic for me)

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

You can read the opinions of the court when overturning their precedents and they’ll say “the court wrongly decided blah blah” or something around those lines but that doesn’t mean the current precedent won’t be overruled in the future

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

Just as roe v wade was decided and considered settled, Dobbs v Jackson “rectified the Burger Court’s mistake” and now that’s where we’re at. But that doesn’t mean that a future court can’t overturn Dobbs

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

You can argue that yeah SCOTUS makes mistakes because the current court says the previous court did but that doesnt mean anything because a future court can say the previous court was also wrong

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

And yes you can argue that in a few cases scotus objectively gets it wrong such as in Dred Scott but there was no check on scotus for that. It had to take a fucking civil war to overturn that

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 1w

Sonia Sotomayor literally called this out in the transgender case two weeks ago. Conservatives just waited until the Supreme Court became majority conservative to bring their arguments to the court.

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