• butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Yes I know, but (1) most lower court actions and decisions are never reviewed by SCOTUS and (2) it’s not like the lower courts were doing great and every once in a while SCOTUS overturned them. This has long, long been a been a very consistent and pervasive problem in the federal courts. It’s not as simple as “SCOTUS pulls the strings of the lower courts,” quite far from it.

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        17 hours ago

        I didn’t say they pull the strings. I said they dictate it. They set precedence. Which is huge in the interpretation of law.