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20/03/2025
Screw Trump. Who does he think he is, Commander-in-Chief?
Most Americans are raised to respect the law. Most hold judges sacroscaint and respect their conclusions and rulings as if Biblical. I personally have had the opposite experience with our courts and had I had the money would have appealed and I’m sure rubbed their noses in it. Judges are human, and at times inhuman. They can be bribed and influenced like many plain old crooks, particularly those who think their power ultimate. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you want to connect the dots, I presume you know this judge who thinks he’s more powerful than our president has a wife and daughter who’ve raised millions for Democrats?
Sorry, Charlie, regarding infallible court rulings maybe you should study a little history and, let’s go to the top, SCOTUS rulings. And before you say the following is ancient history please read beyond. This is not my original research. Did you ever hear of Dread Scott v Sanford? Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal, and laws in those jurisdictions said that slave holders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period. (my notes: Dred Scott was born in the U.S.A.)
In a landmark case, the United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Scott's temporary residence in free territory outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation, because the Missouri Compromise, which made that territory free by prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel, was unconstitutional because it "deprives citizens of their [slave] property without due process of law".
This is a list of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States that have been explicitly overruled, in part or in whole, by a subsequent decision of the Court. It does not include decisions that have been abrogated by subsequent constitutional amendment or by subsequent amending statutes.
As of 2018, the Supreme Court had overruled more than 300 of its own cases.[1] The longest period between the original decision and the overruling decision is 136 years, for the common law Admiralty cases Minturn v. Maynard, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 476 decision in 1855, overruled by the Exxon Corp. v. Central Gulf Lines Inc., 500 U.S. 603 decision in 1991. The shortest period is 11 months, for the constitutional law Fourth Amendment (re: search and seizure) cases Robbins v. California, 453 U.S. 420 decision in July 1981, overruled by the United States v. Ross, 456 U.S. 798 decision in June 1982. There have been 16 decisions which have simultaneously overruled more than one earlier decision; of these, three have simultaneously overruled four decisions each: the statutory law regarding habeas corpus decision Hensley v. Municipal Court, 411 U.S. 345 (1973), the constitutional law Eleventh Amendment (re: sovereign immunity) decision Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651 (1974) and the constitutional law Fifth Amendment(re: double jeopardy) decision Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978).
