"When they circulated this last year, business groups said their top priority was overturning climate change regulations," said Robert J. Moore, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.
While this is a legitimate concern, by itself it is insufficient to overturn the clear priority of Waddell's term.
In a country struggling with unemployment and under-employment, a foreclosure crisis, and Mitt Romney trying to start a war with Europe, it takes a lot to make overturning a Supreme Court decision a national priority.
They enlisted the outspoken support of their MP, stirred a political crisis, and got local flood management priorities overturned.
This broader transformation, not just overturning one bad case, should be a top priority for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or anyone else seeking the power to appoint our future justices.
He also confirmed that he would not be restoring child benefit for higher rate taxpayers, saying: "When it comes to the decisions of the next Labour government, it won't be our biggest priority to overturn the decisions this government has made on taking child benefit away from families earning over £50,000 a year".
Others, including all today's governments, counter that overturning the compromises that allowed democracy to return is both risky still and a low priority in societies grappling with other, and huge, social and economic challenges.
England's immediate priority, however, centres around mopping up an obdurate tail, before they set about overturning an already imposing first-innings deficit.
At first they focused on overturning Roe.
Always overturning the odds.
