Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66… — 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… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know,… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief… — 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
![“Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.” quote by Dahlia Lithwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77c/dahlia-lithwick-17366_ads_judge-gonzalo-curiel-has-not-said-anythi_1541108.jpg)
![“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 current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.” quote by Dahlia Lithwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d6/dahlia-lithwick-17366_book_i-m-hardly-the-first-person-to-say-that_738506.jpg)
![“A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.” quote by Dahlia Lithwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8c/dahlia-lithwick-17366_argument_a-lot-of-conservative-writers-have-twist_814703.jpg)
