The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
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
There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
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
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
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
We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
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
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
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
I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share
