A fan page for Dahlia Lithwick, the rockingest Supreme Court columnist ever ever ever.
A confession?
I have a crush. On a woman I would not be able to identify, even if she were selling aquarium filters door-to-door. Which she wouldn't be, by the way. Because she's wonderful.
You may know her. Her name is Dahlia Lithwick, and our acquaintance has spanned three cities, three apartments and two houses, three jobs, and countless emocore albums. In a perpetually changing universe, her sweet, unerring "Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor" has been one of only a handful of fixed stars. No matter what case I am working on, what legal argument I am putting together, in the background there is always Dahlia.
This is for her.
(based on "The Faces of NPR," by Dahlia Lithwick)
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
dahlia on average joe
All Geek to Me: Nerd Love on Average Joe.
Thursday, November 20, 2003
dahlia on the massachusetts decision
Holy Matrimony: What's really undermining the sanctity of marriage? She has a handy list of culprits, including Circus Circus.
Monday, November 17, 2003
on the washington sniper cases
I Was Brainwashed! If Muhammad's guilty is Malvo innocent?
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
on olympic airways v. husain
The Accidental Tourist: If secondhand smoke kills, is the airline to blame? The Supreme Court deliberates. An amusing line:The problem here, of course, is that Hanson didn't die as a result of an "accident," as we'd colloquially use that word. He died because his flight attendant was a bitch.
Monday, November 03, 2003
on the pringle case
Crackseat Driver: The Supreme Court takes on collective punishment. There is this gem:
You would think the following scene occurs every day: Cops pull over a speeding vehicle and search for drugs. Crack is found. All three passengers insist the drugs are not theirs. So the cops arrest them all. The constitutional dispute today is whether the cops had probable cause to arrest everybody, or just the driver, or just the guy next to the wad of bills in the glove compartment, or just the guy in the backseat with the crack. All of which is interesting. But even more interesting is that this is a case of "first impression" for the high court: meaning no one has brought this kind of challenge before. Apparently, in every other car ever stopped, someone has cheerfully admitted to owning the drugs.
and this one:
Bair seems ready to concede that he would not seek to arrest all the passengers on a bus just because someone had drugs. Prompting Antonin Scalia to enter the bidding war to ask if the result would be different if it were a public bus or a charter bus. He appears to be asking this question purely for recreational purposes.
It sounds like it was a fun day for hypos this morning.
on scalia's remarks
Scaliapalooza: The Supreme Court's pocket Jeremiah.
