Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Contemporary

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Interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg

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2016

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