(The Wall Street Journal)—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently said she wishes her court “went a little more slowly in undoing precedent” (“Sonia Sotomayor’s Elegy for Precedent,” Review & Outlook, Feb. 10). That’s interesting to me because my Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME, decided in 2018, overturned Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, decided in 1977, 41 years later. If that was too soon, then I must ask: Should the court have waited longer than 58 years to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) with Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?…
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