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by kashunstva 584 days ago
> just reading the majority decision PDFs in full

The dissenting opinions are also quite enlightening because they point out weaknesses in the majority and concurring opinions that might not be apparent to those of us outside the field.

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Justices deliberately write their dissents in the hope that people will read them, be persuaded, and then those will eventually become established law. Ginsburg and Scalia were masters of this.
It's actually fascinating the number of times that the dissent will later become the law after culture changes.