You have to be careful with the word precedent in Hannah.

It starts to turn what's the word for that thing when you say it over and over and over.

Again, it doesn't mean sense anymore.

You're like precedent, precedent, precedent.

I don't know the word for that thing, but I know what you're talking about.

But that's not why you gotta be careful with the word precedent.

No, no.

You gotta be careful with the word precedent because of the word precedence and precedence.

Ah, precedence day.

Dead precedence.

Dead precedence.

Bredger, precedent.

The precedent of the United States.

The specifics 101, I'm Hannah McCarthy.

I'm the Capity J.

And today we are talking about judicial precedent, how the Supreme Court interprets the law,

and how that interpretation becomes an authority and guidebook for everyone else.

And what happens when that precedent is overturned?

Now we decided to do this episode because of something that's happening right now in

our Supreme Court.

It's June 2022, and earlier this year, a draft opinion in a Supreme Court case about

abortion access.

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