> Sonia Sotomayor is writing this is a threat to democracy. That carries a lot of weight.

Frankly, it doesn't carry much weight with me. The dissents this cycle have increasingly felt like they're more political tools to try to rile up the Democratic base for the next election than they are legal opinions sincerely held. They're written to have maximum quotability and memetic transmission, and that means they're constantly emotionally charged.

(Note that I'm saying this as a Biden voter who really wishes that Trump weren't poised to take office.)