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dissented

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of Dissent

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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented. Fausto Cercignani

Although the court’s order was unsigned, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch dissented, meaning that Chief Justice John Roberts provided the necessary fifth vote by joining the liberals on the bench. Source: Internet

But the two Justices who dissented in Griswold replied that Goldberg was mistaken to invoke the Ninth as authority for invalidating a state law, it only limits the federal government. Source: Internet

Harlan dissented, maintaining his opinion that the Thirteenth Amendment should protect freedom beyond "physical restraint". Source: Internet

But in a recent speech to a conservative legal group, Justice Samuel Alito, who had dissented in the earlier cases, said courts had an important role to play in protecting religious freedom, pandemic or no. Source: Internet

;Justice Denise R. Johnson Justice Denise R. Johnson concurred with the majority's holding that the marriage statutes defining marriage between opposite couples violated the state constitution, but dissented from the remedy. Source: Internet

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