The Weight of Precedent and Individual Liberty | PM Show
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time. |
| 0:05.0 | time. Lock and load. |
| 0:08.0 | Lock and load. |
| 0:10.0 | The Michael Vary Show is on the air. Oh, Small-minded people think in terms of the immediate situation. |
| 0:35.0 | Think in terms of the immediate situation and never in terms of the larger picture the |
| 0:47.9 | principle that is established the precedent of it all. The Supreme Court when they pass judgment, when they render a ruling, |
| 1:01.8 | they are very mindful of what is known as precedent. |
| 1:05.4 | Precedent is very important in jurisprudence. |
| 1:11.3 | If the Supreme Court rules that a left-handed woman may not file a lawsuit |
| 1:21.2 | against her employer for being for requiring right-handedness, that precedent at the highest |
| 1:30.1 | level now stands. And the Supreme Court is reticent to overturn that. |
| 1:36.5 | That's a silly ruling on making a point, make it easy, that's what was all in the top of my head. |
| 1:40.3 | I should have planned that out better. |
| 1:43.8 | So when you establish precedent in jurisprudence, |
| 1:50.0 | it is like a tall, strong tree. |
| 1:53.2 | It stands there ever present. |
| 1:57.6 | It's a rule. |
| 1:59.5 | It's a rule that is followed and honored. So I think you have to recognize that we are always |
| 2:09.2 | in the process of setting a precedent, of establishing principles. |
| 2:16.9 | Even as we tear down a precedent or principle, |
| 2:20.7 | we are in so doing replacing it with some precedent or principle. |
| 2:27.0 | What we are watching on our campuses today, |
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