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Dissecting conservative Justice Jim Johnson’s dissenting opinion in Freeman v. State

Yes­ter­day’s sev­en-to-two deci­sion in Free­man et al. v. State of Wash­ing­ton et al. was a pret­ty resound­ing vic­to­ry for the peo­ple of Wash­ing­ton and two pub­lic agen­cies that build and main­tain trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture on the peo­ple’s behalf (Sound Tran­sit and the Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion). But it was­n’t a unan­i­mous deci­sion. The court’s two […]