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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

— Charles Evans Hughes

A dissent is the opportunity for the justices to express their differing views with respect to what the majority has done.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized;…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could…

— William O. Douglas

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes.…

— John Paul Stevens

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to…

— Mike DeWine

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the…

— William O. Douglas

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

— Prashant Bhushan

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that…

— Lee Greenwood

I think judges have to have the ability to put aside their personal views and rule on the facts of the case with fidelity…

— Susan Collins