Couchpotato
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The Obergfell decision created legal dependencies, ie all the SSM marriages that have happened in States that would have otherwise outlawed them. If SCOTUS were to overturn that decision it would create legal issues surrounding those marriages which would have to be resolved. And those dependencies get greater every day, right, because people are getting married faster than older marriages are breaking up/dying out. It's something courts have to consider when they overturn past rulings. There is a term for it like Stare Decisis which I cant recall at the moment.I have no idea what this means