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Hey everyone, Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community.

So much has happened in the last couple weeks.

Thank you for sticking with me and hopefully turning to this column for a little bit of insight

into all of it.

As always, keep sending your thoughts, questions, be appropriate to revisit

established case law. We've all seen this dance play out. The nominee tries to sound like she's

answering or answering enough without, of course, saying anything. The soon-to-be justice

recites some canned, vaguely legalistic sounding non-committal bite to get them through the moment.

Survive in advance,

right? For example, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said during his 2018 confirmation hearings that Roe v. Wade, quote, is important precedent of the Supreme Court that has been reaffirmed many

times, end quote, and that generally precedent should not be overturned unless it is, again, to quote

Kavanaugh, grievously wrong. Other justices have phrased it slightly differently over the years,

but they all landed in more or less the same spot. We must respect precedent, except when some

gauzy legal principle that only brilliant jurists can understand tells us that we must not. But here's the real

answer to the question about when the Supreme Court will overturn precedent. Whenever the hell five

justices feel like it. Or perhaps, to be generous, I'll phrase it this way, whenever five of them

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