Comment on Top 7 most prominent dissents during the Roberts Supreme Court era

This story originally appeared at BillMoyers.com Slate legal reporter Dahlia Lithwick tells Bill Moyers that the Roberts Supreme Court is one of the most ideologically polarized in history. “Some of the justices are very proud of the fact that they don’t read any newspaper of record,” she says. “More and more the justices only hire clerks who agree with them… So this court is as polarized in terms of who they interact with, who they see, who they confer with — I think that we have ever seen in history.” Lithwick observes that the minority dissents are “a pretty good indicator” of how the two ideological sides of the court “don’t even see each other.” We rounded up some of the most prominent dissents during the Roberts era, and selected highlights from seven. 1.