23 Quotes by 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, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn’t deserve to be there, and has never done anything.”

Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

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

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

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 creation too complicated for mere mortals.

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

I wonder if there’s just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

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

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 have had to say to this.