Dahlia Lithwick

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

— Dahlia Lithwick

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to…

— Dahlia Lithwick

There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say…

— Dahlia Lithwick

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

— Dahlia Lithwick

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just…

— Dahlia Lithwick

For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel,…

— Dahlia Lithwick

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

— Dahlia Lithwick

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the…

— Dahlia Lithwick

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to…

— Dahlia Lithwick

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we…

— Dahlia Lithwick

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

— Dahlia Lithwick

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know,…

— Dahlia Lithwick