medium · LSAT Reading Comprehension
Among the remedies for a flawed judicial precedent is legislative correction: a legislature can simply enact a statute that supersedes the mistaken rule. The author cautions, however, that this remedy faces a practical barrier. Statutory correction depends on lawmakers' willingness to act, and that willingness is least likely to materialize when the people harmed by the flawed ruling hold little political power and so cannot pressure lawmakers to intervene on their behalf.
Which one of the following best describes the practical barrier to legislative correction identified by the author?
- The slowness of the legislative process compared with the immediacy of a court's ruling.
- A constitutional restriction that forbids legislatures from displacing judicial decisions.
- The tendency of newly enacted statutes to sow more confusion than the precedents they replace.
- The absence of any political incentive to aid groups that lack meaningful political power.
- The difficulty courts face in tracing how a flawed precedent harmed a particular class of people.
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