Ask AmyQ: How common are oral dissents? A: Oral dissents – that is, when a justice reads a summary of his or her dissent from the bench when an opinion is handed down – are fairly rare. They came in three of the biggest cases of the term: Mahmoud v. Taylor, Trump v. CASA, and United States v. Skrmetti. Four came from Sotomayor, in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, Garland v. Cargill, SEC v. Jarkesy, and Trump v. United States. Jackson also had an unusual oral concurring opinion, in Moyle v. United States.