Minority report: How justices from Harlan to Breyer shaped legal opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "When Justice Thomas makes the point that affirmative action, in his view, harms racial minorities," says Professor Murray, "it will be really important and interesting to watch a Black woman go toe to toe with him and present perhaps an alternative perspective."
48% : After years of solo opinions arguing that, for example, political donors should be able to give anonymously and that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, those opinions have now become the law of the land.
43% : Not only does the court seem poised to roll back key liberal precedents on abortion and affirmative action, but those conservative justices will likely shape the law for decades to come.
37% : It's not unthinkable that decades from now, his dissents form the basis for the Supreme Court outlawing capital punishment.
29% : Justice Breyer, for example, has argued for years - to no avail - that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
28% : In the 2012 case in which the Supreme Court voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act for the first time, Justice Breyer was reportedly pivotal in crafting a compromise with Chief Justice John Roberts that upheld the act's individual mandate but struck down its Medicaid expansion provision.

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