Roe and Casey were egregiously wrong, and the Biden administration says that doesn’t matter

Published December 1, 2021 8:24pm ET



Perhaps the oddest part of the liberals’ argument against Mississippi’s abortion law, which protects second-trimester babies from abortion, was the insistence the Supreme Court is bound by previous Supreme Courts, regardless of how wrong those previous Supreme Courts were.

“Is it your argument that a case can never be overruled simply because it was egregiously wrong?” Justice Sam Alito asked.

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