Court Overturns Precedent, Raising Concern Over What’s Next (2)

A divided U.S. Supreme Court jettisoned a 40-year-old ruling May 13, raising concerns about the future of other long-standing precedents.

The “decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in dissent.

The case here involved a decades-old ruling allowing states to be hauled into the courts of other states.

But the reasoning of the decision could reverberate well beyond the reach of state courts to include the viability of the court’s abortion protections and the authority of administrative agencies.

A decision overturning court protections for abortion and other controversial conservative ...