1.   Dissenting justices said the ruling takes away the privacy protections of tens of millions of innocent passengers.

2.   The four dissenting justices wanted to dispose of the case without considering the constitutional question.

3.   But the justices did not, though one dissenting justice said they should have.

4.   Dissenting justices Joyce Luther Kennard, Kathryn M. Werdegar and Ronald M. George argued that parental consent would cause stress and embarrassment to teens.

5.   However, the three dissenting justices said the Constitution prohibits state agencies from exercising arbitrary discretion when they open the public airwaves for candidates to a particular office.

6.   One dissenting justice, Antonin Scalia, certainly left that possibility open.

7.   That interpretation did not give the states enough leeway to satisfy the three dissenting justices.

8.   The dissenting justices can scarcely conceal their contempt for this shameless bit of sloganeering.

9.   The dissenting justices were Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Stephen Breyer.

10.   The dissenting justices, led by Justice John Paul Stevens, argued that there is a difference between benign and malevolent racial categories.