Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
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