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The business of saying something is "settled law" is, with every Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing, revealed as little more than a game. Judge Sotomayor tells America that Roe v. Wade is "settled" law.…that mystical ironclad thing called precedent. What Senator will now ask why Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision that approved racial segregation, was not "settled law" by 1954 when it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education? Brown dismantled the Supreme Court's Plessy decision, the latter a classic of Sotomayor-style judicial activism run amok with jurists who considered themselves wise white men simply ignoring the 14th Amendment.
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Tim| 7.14.09 @ 11:44AM
Can't you just let him finish his waffle?
Megan Lott| 7.14.09 @ 1:42PM
Very astute Jeff; I wish the Senators grilling her would point this out!
Siegfried X| 7.14.09 @ 2:19PM
That's really the point, that settled law can be overturned. Saying there is CURRENTLY a right to privacy wouldn't prevent a justice from voting to overturn it in the future. Soto is also saying that in each and every decision she simply followed precedent. So the hearing is meaningless word dancing.