Quotes About Overruling

In defensive warfare he was perfect," he wrote years later. "When the hunt was up, his combativeness was overruling.

majority described the pressure on the Court and explained why "principles of institutional integrity" required that Roe v. Wade be reaffirmed. A "terrible price would be paid for overruling," the three justices wrote, adding that such a step "would seriously weaken the Court's capacity to exercise the judicial power and to function as the Supreme Court of a Nation dedicated to the rule of law.