Stare Decisis: what you do instead of something
I’ve said before that stare decisis is Latin for we’ve stopped thinking or we’ve fucked it up for this long, let’s keep doing that or oops. Honestly, it’s a bullshit concept and has no place among rational people, which is why lawyers and judges use it, I suppose. But this is a good quote: Stare decisis is like gun control. It only affects those who respect the law.