{"id":293,"date":"2008-08-24T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-08-22T20:02:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:02:30","slug":"how-do-you-spell-soviet-union-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"How do you spell Soviet Union today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I<\/h2>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal recently <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2008\/08\/22\/justices-tell-colleague-not-to-publish-his-opinion\/trackback\/\">reported<\/a> one of the most peculiar incidents I&#8217;ve read about in a long time: a Mississippi Supreme Court justice was ordered by the majority not to publish a dissenting opinion in what seems like a relatively pedestrian case.\u00a0 Dissenting opinions are nearly as important as majority opinions because first they inform us of what the other side of an issue is, and second they often turn into majority opinions of the future, either due to changes in courts or changes in law.\u00a0 It would be one thing for the court, by the way, to not want to reveal specific details of a case, but an entire opinion is beyond the pale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I The Wall Street Journal recently reported one of the most peculiar incidents I&#8217;ve read about in a long time: a Mississippi Supreme Court justice was ordered by the majority not to publish a dissenting opinion in what seems like a relatively pedestrian case.\u00a0 Dissenting opinions are nearly as important as majority opinions because first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you spell Soviet Union today?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[138,79],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-courts","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}