And there are plenty of other examples of Roberts joining opinions that explicitly or effectively overrule so-called “settled” precedents. In 2013, the Chief Justice was the author of a shoddily-written opinion overruling a nearly 50-year-old precedent, striking down the most important provision of the Voting Rights Act (which had been re-authorized by overwhelming congressional majorities less than a decade before). The day, when Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation, paving the way for Kavanaugh, Roberts joined a bare majority of the Court to overrule a 40-year-old precedent allowing unions to collect dues from workers who are not members of the union but benefit from the actions taken on their behalf. In fact, to find Roberts voting to overrule a longstanding precedent, you would only have to go back to the last day in which the Supreme Court announced its 2018 rulings. Roberts, in practice, does not oppose overruling long-settled precedents.
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