Word: dissenters
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...Americans with Disabilities Act and requiring courtrooms to be accessible to those with physical disabilities. And most famously, she voted in 2000 to step into Florida's disputed presidential balloting and stop the recount, giving the election to George W. Bush. But she also wrote a scathing dissent in this term's medical-marijuana case, in which a majority of the Justices said that federal antidrug laws trump state efforts to let doctors prescribe marijuana...
...stand up in the face of their accusations. He suggests that Clark and others, however, decided to go along with the charade rather than stick up for what they might otherwise believe is right. According to Thomas, the collective experiences of Nesson and Rosenberg taught other professors that dissent from Crit theory would be met with loud, potentially career-ending protests. Too many professors began to follow the route of least intellectual resistance, and the result was the intellectual suicide of America’s oldest and arguably most prestigious law school...
...connected with organized crime. For the majority, Justice O'Connor acknowledged that the decision would cause plaintiffs to lose when "evidence is ambiguous," but she concluded that the "Constitution requires us to tip" toward protecting speech. Justice John Paul Stevens did not see the balance that way. In a dissent joined by Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, he called the decision a "blueprint for character assassination...
...Soviet spokesmen talked of "the process of democratization and reform that is taking place now in the Soviet Union." Reform and democratization are not in the traditional lexicon of Kremlin propaganda. The Soviets even discussed internal opposition to Gorbachev's reforms, implicitly suggesting that Soviet society is open to dissent. Questioned about dissidents inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets held their temper and made conciliatory remarks...
Standing in his familiar position on the podium of the State Department pressroom, Bernard Kalb announced to stunned reporters that he chose to "dissent from the reported disinformation program." Said Kalb, a former correspondent for NBC and CBS: "You face a choice, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent." He added, "Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy...