Paragraph 7 of 8 Sentence 2 of 3 Just one claim in this sentence: “It is not a step that should be taken lightly.” I’m sure this is true, but since it’s a judgment that would take some time to establish, I’ll leave it undetermined for now. Undetermined!
Paragraph 7 of 8 Sentence 1 of 3 This sentence contains two claims: “No Justice of this Court has ever argued that the Court should never overrule a constitutional decision, but overruling a precedent is a serious matter.” The claims: The first claim is essentially impossible to lock down as true, as confirming an absence […]
Paragraph 6 of 8 Sentence 2 of 2 The next sentence has two claims: “Without these decisions, American constitutional law as we know it would be unrecognizable, and this would be a different country.” The claims: The first claim is actually nonsense. Literal nonsense. I think whomever wrote this sentence didn’t look to closely at […]
Paragraph 6 of 8 Sentence 1 of 2 I get two claims from this sentence: “On many other occasions, this Court has overruled important constitutional decisions. (We include a partial list in the footnote that follows.48)” The claims: This first of these is clearly true, and we don’t have to look any further than the […]
Paragraph 5 of 8 Sentence 2 of 2 This looks like one claim: “Barnette stands out because nothing had changed during the intervening period other than the Court’s belated recognition that its earlier decision had been seriously wrong.” And it seems like something that can’t be determined in a quick look. Three years passed between […]
Paragraph 5 of 8 Sentence 1 of 2 I count two claims in the next sentence: “Finally, in West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624 (1943), after the lapse of only three years, the Court overruled Minersville School Dist. v. Gobitis, 310 U. S. 586 (1940), and held that public school […]
Paragraph 4 of 8 Sentence 2 of 2 Just one claim here, but three citations: “West Coast Hotel signaled the demise of an entire line of important precedents that had protected an individual liberty right against state and federal health and welfare legislation. See Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905) (holding invalid a […]
Paragraph 4 of 8 Sentence 1 of 2 This sentence contains two claims: “In West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937), the Court overruled Adkins v. Children’s Hospital of D. C., 261 U.S. 525 (1923), which had held that a law setting minimum wages for women violated the ‘liberty’ protected by the […]
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 4 of 4 I get three distinct claims in the next sentence: “In so doing, the Court overruled the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), along with six other Supreme Court precedents that had applied the separate-but-equal rule. See Brown, 347 U.S., at 491. The claims: […]
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 3 of 4 This sentence contains two claims: “In Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the Court repudiated the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine, which had allowed States to maintain racially segregated schools and other facilities. Id., at 488 (internal quotation marks omitted).” Both of these claims are […]
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