The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.
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 … - Dahlia Lithwick
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 …
- 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
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
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… - 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, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes…
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 creat… - 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 act of creat…
Never believe in any faith younger than you are. - Dahlia Lithwick
Never believe in any faith younger than you are.
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. - Dahlia Lithwick
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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 when you look … - 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 really palpable when you look …
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
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.
I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more. - Dahlia Lithwick
I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.
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