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Which Supreme Court justice signaled dissent with a majority opinion by wearing a black collar?

dissent

[dih-sent] / dษชหˆsษ›nt /




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This decision, though, was so upsetting that it drew a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

From Slate โ— Oct. 1, 2026

"Both the majority and dissent agree that this case is likely to have limited impact on the midterms," Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a blog post.

From Barron's โ— Sep. 25, 2026

Since the beginning of the central bank’s modern era about 50 years ago, it has been extraordinarily rare for a sitting Fed chair to dissent on a decision on interest rates.

From MarketWatch โ— Sep. 16, 2026

I saw this first hand with his dissent towards a fitness fielding session in the build-up to the 2014 Sydney Test match, among others.

From BBC โ— Sep. 15, 2026

There’s some dissent, but Haymitch takes our part, and by bedtime, we have a compartment across from Prim and my mother, who agrees to keep an eye on us.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

There were three dissents at the Fed’s July meeting in favor of a rate hike.

From MarketWatch โ— Aug. 27, 2026

During that time, there were lots of debates but few dissents.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Aug. 25, 2026

But so is the case for raising rates soon—as evidenced by the three dissents at the last meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Aug. 25, 2026

"I don't expect a rate hike, but I do expect dissents," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.

From Barron's โ— Jul. 29, 2026

"When some thought these dissents ground enough for war, he declared himself against it, and confirmed others in their allegiance: he profest to the last a great hatred of that horrible rebellion."

From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson

In July, when the Fed held rates steady, she was one of three policymakers who dissented in favor of a rate increase.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 11, 2026

The top court's three liberal justices - Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented.

From BBC โ— Oct. 1, 2026

At the committee's last meeting in July, three regional Fed presidents dissented from the decision to hold rates steady, calling for an immediate 0.25 percentage-point hike to tackle inflation.

From Barron's โ— Sep. 3, 2026

But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Aug. 31, 2026

“Outstanding people left because the atmosphere at the Radiation Laboratory. . . did not make people who dissented feel they were welcome,” observed David Saxon, the future university president.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Oh expects a few dissenting votes in favor of an increase at the Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 16, 2026

Former Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who now serves as the mayor of Oakland, cast the only dissenting vote.

From Salon โ— Sep. 13, 2026

"The battle for succession has largely remained an in-house rather than a national matter following the weakening of political institutions and the crushing of dissenting voices," said Waluya.

From Barron's โ— Aug. 27, 2026

And as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned in her solo dissenting opinion from the per curiam order, the real issue is not that the court punted a decision on the merits here.

From Slate โ— Aug. 26, 2026

According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn’t prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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