The Atlantic – Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law. “In recent Supreme Court terms, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have issued defiant dissents that push back against a seemingly endless cascade of conservative opinions. The three tend to take somewhat different approaches. Kagan has typically focused on exposing the majority’s shoddy reasoning, Sotomayor has underscored its complicity in wrong, and Jackson has placed it within larger systems of oppression. One might think, just skimming the dissents, that everything is as it should be: The Court takes cases. It hears arguments, and it votes. Those on the losing end dissent. One can read the majority opinion and the dissent, and see reasonable people disagreeing courteously and reasonably. That’s how the law is supposed to work, right? All is in order, same as it has been since the 1920s at least…”