23 Quotes by 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 the states – which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

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

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn’t say full of – there have been some bad writers on the court over the years. We’ve just lost a great writer in Antonin Scalia.

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.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?