Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On The Way SCOTUS Kills Dissents In Boring Cases

Dissents get buried all the time in dull cases.

Where tax decisions go to die.

Even though I disagree, I will bury my dissent. We call that a graveyard dissent.

— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during a speaking engagement presented by Duke University School of Law that took place in Washington, D.C., explaining one of the ways the justices of the Supreme Court try to achieve consensus. “I will never compromise, when it’s a question of, say, freedom of speech or press, gender equality,” she went on to say later in her remarks. Justice Ginsburg’s full remarks can be seen below.


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