Stephen Hardwick: Let me step back from this a bit. This is true short term, but the seeds of today’s right-wing rule were sown in dissents since the Warren Court. Judges and justices on the left need to hone this craft. And people like me shouldn’t throw spit balls from the peanut gallery when they do.

Let me step back from this a bit. This is true short term, but the seeds of today’s right-wing rule were sown in dissents since the Warren Court. Judges and justices on the left need to hone this craft. And people like me shouldn’t throw spit balls from the peanut gallery when they do.

“Great dissent” means the right side lost, and lost big. I hate those words.

Useful if paired with a strategic long term project… atomized dissents feel less effective

I think any eventual anti-death penalty decision will end up quoting from callins v collins or Brenans and Marshall's dissents.

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