precedents
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court’s precedents make clear that broad policies should apply to everyone, even religious objectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Scalia recommended that the attorney stick to those precedents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The court’s precedents are creating an invisible tightrope very few plaintiffs can cross successfully.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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