Supreme Court Justice Targets Rule Older Than Civil War

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A Trumpy Supreme Court justice has taken aim at a legal principle dating back to the 19th century.

Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee and reliably conservative justice, urged his fellow Supreme Court justices to reconsider a 169-year-old doctrine known as judicial estoppel.

Estoppel prevents a party from taking a position that contradicts a position they held in an earlier legal proceeding.

It’s https://www.supremecourt.gov/qp/25-00006qp.pdf" rel="">designed “‘to protect the integrity of the judicial process’ by ‘prohibiting parties from deliberately changing positions’ to gain an unfair advantage.”

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