Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
I know it will be alright. I'm just pointing out how silly this system is. We have justices who were nominated decades ago.

From the outside, it looks like belief in stare decisis just means you have to do a little more gymnastics when writing your opinion. They vote how they want to vote, and there's plenty of wiggle room in the interpretation of precedent to do it.
But for stare decisis Roe v. Wade would have been overturned decades ago.