down by strict rules and precedence. president baker called precedent the anchor of the law. you start with precedent, you consider those factors in that late and, yes, in a very few cases you may overrule precedent. it not an inexorable command, the property has said. that s the law of precedent as i understand it and as i believe is expressed in that book with my very high lie respected colleagues. as a lower court judge, you re bound not only as supreme court precedent but as you ve demonstrated the precedent of your own court but as a supreme court judge, this part of your job will be to decide when existing supreme court precedent need not be reconsidered. how will you decide when you revisit existing precedent? mr. chairman, i don t think the considerations change. it s the same analysis that i