Justice Breyer's warning and other things we learned at the Supreme Court on Monday
Washington As the Supreme Court rounds the final turns of the term, Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to launch a warning towards his conservative colleagues in an opinion released Monday.
Be very careful before you overturn precedent, he said. Breyer's warnings, coupled with two unusual death penalty opinions and a rare vote from Brett Kavanaugh siding with the liberals on the bench, gave fodder to court watchers waiting anxiously to see how the court is interacting, and where the newly conservative majority is headed.
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