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In Supreme Court dissent, Thomas cites Thomas in arguing to overturn decision authored by Thomas
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| Last Edited | RP Feb 24, 2020 09:44pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Tyler Olson |
| News Date | Monday, February 24, 2020 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Even by Supreme Court standards, this development takes a minute to wrap your head around.
In a dissent to the high court's decision Monday not to hear a tax case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas managed to cite an opinion that he wrote while making the case for why the tribunal should overturn a precedent he authored.
"Although I authored Brand X, 'it is never too late to ‘surrende[r] former views to a better considered position,'" Thomas wrote in his Monday dissent, quoting himself from a 2018 opinion in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.
Thomas has recently been quite vocal in advocating for the court to overturn a variety of precedents, saying in one opinion last year that when "faced with a demonstrably erroneous precedent, my rule is simple: We should not follow it." |
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