U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is known to have his doubts about stare decisis, the doctrine of standing by precedents.

The late Justice Antonin Scalia once said that Thomas “doesn’t believe in stare decisis, period.” Practitioners know that he is the justice most receptive to pleas to overturn undesirable precedents.

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