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Shelby County v. Holder

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The Dissent in Citizens United

Ginsburg makes the very astute and sharp analogy that this is throwing away an umbrella in a rainstorm because you're not getting wet. And I think that single line might be like why she got a family. It's a fucking great line. The only real thing missing from this dissent, if we go back a couple episodes missing from Justice Stevens' dissent in Citizens United, is that it doesn't question the motives of the conservative majority. Right. So a point that's important to kind of interject here is in 2009, there was another case similar to this in origin. Where he set up his reasoning here.

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