important in the court's history the court overruled precedent and turns out if the court in those cases had listened and presented with arguments in those cases adhere to precedent in brown versus board. adhere to precedent on west coast hotel and adhere to atkins and lochner and if the court had done that in those cases, the country would be a much different place. so i assume you agree with most, if not all the cases i listed there where the court overruled the precedent. so the question on stare decisis is why if -- i know you disagree with what i'm about to say in the if. if we think that the prior precedents are seriously wrong, if that, why then doesn't the