It is not false, SCOTUS overturns lower court precedent all the time, DC banning all handguns for example, the lower court set precedent upholding the ban. SCOTUS overturned it. They will use lower courts precedent in their opinions but only rely on precedent previously made by SCOTUS.
Slavery was written into the constitution, that's a terrible example. Also originally it restricted the federal government from infringement on those rights, not from the states. That's why you see state constitutions sometimes having their own mimic of the bill of rights in it. Like you mentioned the 14th amendment expanded it to the states, and Scalia disagreed with that ruling!!! But since it was SCOTUS precedent he followed it.
Those rights protected everyone within the US from the federal government originally, and expanded it to the states with the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th.
It is not false, SCOTUS overturns lower court precedent all the time, DC banning all handguns for example, the lower court set precedent upholding the ban. SCOTUS overturned it. They will use lower courts precedent in their opinions but only rely on precedent previously made by SCOTUS.
Slavery was written into the constitution, that's a terrible example. Also originally it restricted the federal government from infringement on those rights, not from the states. That's why you see state constitutions sometimes having their own mimic of the bill of rights in it. Like you mentioned the 14th amendment expanded it to the states, and Scalia disagreed with that ruling!!! But since it was SCOTUS precedent he followed it.
Those rights protected everyone within the US from the federal government originally, and expanded it to the states with the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th.