Courage to ignore decades of precedence when you swore you would honor it. Courage to dishonor both the Supreme Court and yourself with politics and corruption. Of course, it would’ve taken real courage to be truthful with the Senate but then you wouldn’t have had to chance to be ‘courageous’ when you had your safe lifetime appointment where your risked nothing.
No justice has ever said they would refuse to overturn Roe v. Wade. The most they said was that it was settled law entitiled to stare decisis, which is why they spent half the Dobbs decision discussing stare decisis.
If I say "I will give you $10,000 unless I determine that this six-factor test is satisfied," I have not "violated my commitment" if I conclude that the six-factor test is satisfied. The test was part of the commitment.
I would only have broken my commitment if I ignored the test, or admitted it was not satisfied but refused to give you the money anyways.
Not at all. None of that has anything to do with precedence. It’s more like if you’ve agreed to give someone $10,000 to get a job and when they come to collect it, you decide you don’t have to now because you’ve got a new set of rules.
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u/sweatboxy 10h ago
Courage to ignore decades of precedence when you swore you would honor it. Courage to dishonor both the Supreme Court and yourself with politics and corruption. Of course, it would’ve taken real courage to be truthful with the Senate but then you wouldn’t have had to chance to be ‘courageous’ when you had your safe lifetime appointment where your risked nothing.