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Re:How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:34AM (#31247052)
Certainly, but one of the deciding votes here won their seat very recently claiming precedent in this specific case made it settled law. That appears to have been a lie.
Re:How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare by zdragnar on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:18AM (#31248600)
That is very much not what he claimed. We also don't yet know how he voted.
Re:How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:13PM (#31250058)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abort...

> A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/brett-kavanaugh-ro...

> “We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins told reporters. “He said that he agreed with what [Chief] Justice [John] Roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law.”

Lisa Murkowski now openly claims to have been misled by the nominees, as well. https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/152152291819859148...