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The Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment is airtight, argued conservative attorney George Conway in The Atlantic — and one of the most telling indicators of that is how flimsy the dissents are.

"I came to adopt the practice not just for newsworthy rulings that I disagreed with, but for decisions I agreed with, including even obscure cases in the areas of business law I practiced," wrote Conway. "Dissents are generally shorter, and almost always more fun to read, than majority opinions; judges usually feel freer to express themselves when writing separately. But dissents are also intellectually useful: If there’s a weakness in the majority’s argument, an able judge will expose it, sometimes brutally, and she may make you change your mind, or at least be less dismissive of her position, even when you disagree. Give me a pile of Justice Elena Kagan’s dissents to read anytime — I love them even when she’s wrong, as I think she often is. You can learn a lot from dissents."