These days our Supreme Court is supremely uninterested in precedent -- so much for stare decisis et non quieta movere. One among many recent 5-4 decisions (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy vs. the interests of the people of the United States of America), the Court has ruled in favor of the National Association of Home Builders (PDF) to permit the federal government to ignore the Endangered Species Act. Why, you might ask? Why, when such a decision overrules all established case precedent and past judgments?
The time to ask why was, of course, before we were left with just four unbought justices -- ages 67, 68, 74, and 87. That means that the right-wing Court is on average more than 12 years younger than the ethical Court.
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Well, one might argue we're all endangered at this point. =p
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