{"id":42192,"date":"2014-05-25T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/changing-opinions.html"},"modified":"2014-05-27T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:57:29","slug":"changing-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/changing-opinions.html","title":{"rendered":"Changing Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"
For a group who places great stock by their words (and whose precise words are considered intensely important in courtrooms and statehouses around the nation), SCOTUS does a piss-poor job of keeping people up to date with where they have revised their words after the fact.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Final Word on U.S. Law Isn\u2019t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing – NYTimes.com<\/a>
\n The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, a secretive process that has led judges, lawyers and scholars astray.\n <\/p>\n

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For a group who places great stock by their words (and whose precise words are considered intensely important in courtrooms and statehouses around the nation), SCOTUS does a piss-poor job of keeping people up to date with where they have revised their words after the fact.\ufeff Final Word on U.S. Law Isn\u2019t: Supreme Court Keeps … Continue reading “Changing Opinions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135257,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/trump-yet-learn-words-impact.html","url_meta":{"origin":42192,"position":0},"title":"Trump has yet to learn that his words have the impact they do","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Nov-17 7:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, he believes they have an impact -- that many people are enchanted, enthralled, inspired, and oh-so-admiring of his words, his beautiful words, some of the best words ever. 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