How the Supreme Court has quietly overturned precedent

from Weekend Edition Sunday · host Ayesha Rascoe

Legal scholar Adam Feldman tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how the Supreme Court sometimes overturns precedent without explicitly calling an earlier decision invalid.

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