Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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.
- Dahlia Lithwick
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.
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 …
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…
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.
Never believe in any faith younger than you are. - Dahlia Lithwick
Never believe in any faith younger than you are.
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 …
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…
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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