“In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions
Interview with the New York Times (29 October 1973)
Other speeches and writings
“In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions
“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Though I have joined opinions disagreeing with Justice Blackmun, I could not imagine ever being discourteous to him merely because we disagreed.
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
The Supreme Court in the American System of Government (1955), p. 30
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
"Cue the Green God, Ted" (1991).
1990s, A View from the Diner's Club (1991)
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998) (Scalia, concurring).
1990s
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, The Logic of the Colorblind Constitution (2004)
Context: Harlan's dissenting opinion in Plessy, that the Constitution was colorblind, and that it did not countenance different and unequal classes of citizens, was based upon a belief in the truth of the principle of equality in which the founders and Lincoln had so profoundly believed. But this belief had been buried by progressivism, and has not been resurrected, except by the intellectual heirs of Leo Strauss. On intellectual grounds, it has never been refuted, and ought never to have been abandoned. There is not now, and never has been any such difference between one human being and another human being, or whatever race or color, such that one is by nature the ruler of the other, as any human being is by nature the ruler of any dog or any horse. For this reason, legitimate political authority can arise only by the consent of the governed, and consent can never be given for any reason other than the equal protection of the rights of the governed. Hence equal protection is the foundation of all constitutionalism, even apart from its specific inclusion in the Constitution itself. For more reasons than one, Justice Harlan's dissenting opinion ought to have been the opinion of the Court in 1896; even more ought it to have been the opinion of the Court in 1954. As Professor Edward J. Erler has demonstrated in the pages of the Claremont Review of Books, the principle of equal protection has never become the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, nor has it been favored in the writings of conservative jurists.
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Walter Pater (1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer
Conclusion <br class="br"> The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Navarette v. California, 134 S. Ct. 1683, 1697, 188 L. Ed. 2d 680 (2014).
2010s