Reply #257: It will make a difference, no matter how the case turns out. She has created an opening to start

[No Elephants]

thinking differently about something that happened in 1886, but perhaps should never have happened.

Dissenting opinions get cited by lawyers and courts favoring a change in the law. They are not binding, but they can be persuasive.

Of course, a SCOTUS majority opinion would change things instantly and citing a dissenting opinion would not, but she has stuck a wedge in the doorway that may well lead to a sane result, sooner or much later.


"The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice."