Unsound Judgement Quotes
Train was an ardent supporter of Women’s Suffrage; however, he did not favor negro suffrage until they were sufficiently educated. He was also a Democrat. This alienated Garrison and other leading abolitionists. However Train was such an effective speaker for women’s rights that Anthony and her colleagues kept traveling with him on the lecture circuit. He was the one, for example, that initiated the creation of their periodical, Revolution.
Relying on precedent in judicial decisions has the potential problem of perpetuating errors of the past. However, not to do so, creates doubt and uncertainty vitiating one of the major functions of the higher courts---to set the rules for all. In this particular case, the other justices did not agree that there had been a previous error and so Rehnquist’s view was a minority dissent, almost all judges would agree with this principle.
