‘Renewal’ becomes the default and avoids repeal.
David Schaub 20, Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law, 7/19/2020, "Doctrinal Sunsets," Southern California Law Review, vol. 93, no. 3, pg. 431-506, christian
To be sure, providing a sunset does not necessarily mean that legal or political actors will cease believing that it is a natural and inevitable state of affairs that our current suspect classifications deserve that moniker.321 Citizens and judges alike may grow used to the putatively temporary rule and view not renewing as akin to an overt act of repeal.322 But a sunset provision at least reduces the barriers to a rule change by disenabling courts or litigants from relying on stare decisis alone as a reason for keeping the current doctrine intact.323