# What 3 SCOTUS decisions do you overturn?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 8, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-scotus-decisions-do-you-overturn/570706 "2011-02-08T22:36:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-scotus-decisions-do-you-overturn/570706/81 "2011-02-11T08:23:53Z")

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State Farm v. Campbell  
Citizens United

I can live with all the others. I can probably live with State Farm, but I think it isn’t a federal power to say what the states can do with civil law. Citizens United is going to turn our nation into a corporatist state.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-scotus-decisions-do-you-overturn/570706/82 "2011-02-11T08:50:04Z")

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_Kelo_, _Wickard_, and _Carolene_

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-scotus-decisions-do-you-overturn/570706/83 "2011-02-11T14:57:33Z")

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> [@Procrustus](#):
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> \*Twombly \*is bad, no doubt. But at least if you’re aware of it, you can take pains to avoid the problem. It’s maddening because it truly was a “solution” in search of a problem. Notice pleading worked perfectly well for generations.

Yeah, the opinion almost reads like, “okay, we’re bored with this. Let’s fuck things up and see what happens.”

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-scotus-decisions-do-you-overturn/570706/84 "2011-02-11T15:00:29Z")

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_Citizens United_ and two players to be named at a later date.

ETA: actually, _Citizens United_ three times, just to be on the safe side.

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