There is a grey area between spirited dissent and out-and-out trolling that houses the passionately misinformed, the casually profane, schoolchildren taking the piss and otherwise intelligent people who don't put spaces after commas.
Her first big dissent came out today, in a freedom of religion case.
He also had little tolerance for internal dissent, driving out senior managers who disagreed with him.
Breyer's dissent laid out his reasons: "(1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty's penological purpose.
VLADIMIR PUTIN has successfully suppressed dissent, squeezed out opposition and clamped down on the media, but he has not been able to control global financial markets.
2. As Burger's dissent points out, Chiarella did not simply trade while in possession of material nonpublic information: Chiarella misappropriated that information from his employer.
The country's increasing space for dissent, carved out over recent years, has been squeezed by the pressure to perfect its image ahead of the Olympics.
A dissent pointed out that the failure to review his claims could be a miscarriage of justice: Glossip is about to be executed and "the State has no interest in executing an actually innocent man".
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a strong dissent, points out that "the court reaches this result only by way of an unprecedented, post hoc reconstruction of the crime," ignoring the case's "undisputed facts".
Among the bridal brouhaha, the bride's mother acts as the sole voice of dissent, pointing out that her daughter may be a bit foolhardy to give up on education to marry a footballer.
