The Courts Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something
News Source : The Atlantic
News Summary
- Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have issued defiant dissents.
- Julian Zelizer: Their dissents suggest anything but an assumption of business as usual.
- He says the three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law and its tiresome technicalities.
- Zelizer says the dissents are screaming that the old game of law is no more; we’re in a different world.
- The practice of a Supreme Court dissenting opinion is relatively new.
In recent Supreme Court terms, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have issued defiant dissents that push back against a seemingly endless cascade of conservative opinion [+8874 chars]
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