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 First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

- 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 …

- 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.

- Dahlia Lithwick

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

- Dahlia Lithwick