On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how damaging and dangerous it is when Donald Trump calls out Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel. And at the… — 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
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