From a reader:

Jonah: Yesterday the Supreme Court overruled a precedent from 1911, with Roberts and Alito among the five votes for reversal. Why isn’t Arlen “Stare Decisis” Specter denouncing the overturning of a “long-established” precedent.? Because Specter doesn’t really care about precedent, unless it’s name is Roe v. Wade.

Yes, but was the 1911 precedent a super-duper precedent?