Word: dissenters
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...that you get out and all of your friends are investment bankers...so I couldn’t really hang out with them...because their spending habits were so out of line with mine. But I did eventually find magazines that I really liked, like “Dissent,” and those people showed me how you can write things you believe in and survive as a grown...
...what could the pro-choice crowd possibly find pleasing here? Well, for what it's worth, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a very compelling dissent, joined by three of her liberal colleagues, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter. It's as fiery as anything turned out by conservative rabble-rouser Antonin Scalia, probably the court's best writer. She dismisses the majority's logic as "bewildering," the product of old men out of touch: "This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution - ideas that have long since been...
Yesterday’s plan passed by a margin of 18-4-1. Much of the dissent focused on whether the UC’s survey was statistically legitimate...
...think it was an attempt to intimidate the press - both independent and mainstream - and those who engage in civil dissent...
...privacy could lead to challenges of state laws that forbade such things as gay marriage and bigamy. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are ... called into question by today's decision," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, in a withering dissent he read aloud page by page from the bench...