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dissenter

noun as in dissident

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“It boggles my mind what goes on in this district,” said Donald Bridge, a former U.S. history and government teacher who is the lone dissenter on the Chino Valley board and finishing out his last term.

In that case, Thomas was the sole dissenter in an 8-1 decision.

Of the 12 voting members of the Fed’s policy-setting committee, there was one dissenter, Michelle Bowman, who preferred a quarter-point cut.

That July ruling from the nation’s highest court was seen as a death knell for the cases against the former president, the conservative majority having effectively legalized “criminal and treasonous acts,” per liberal dissenter Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

From Salon

“Of course,” responded Justice Debra H. Lehrmann, the court’s lone dissenter, “there is nothing remotely medically necessary about tattooing.”

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