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)
Friday, January 30, 2004
dahlia on a canadian supreme court decision
Spare Us the "Spare the Rod": Canada tries to sort out the good spankings from the bad.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
dahlia on iowa v. tovar
Wise Council: The Supreme Court ponders the usefulness of lawyers.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
dahlia on lane v. tennessee
Off-Ramp: Crawling up stairs at a courthouse near you. It even starts off powerfully:You'd have to look long and hard to find a civil rights plaintiff more deserving of empathy than George Lane. But then you'd also have to look long and hard to find five Supreme Court justices capable of manifesting empathy. Today is a triumph of mean-spirited grousing at the high court, all sung to the dolorous tune of "What do those handicapped people want from us anyway?"There's also this gem of a paragraph:The state of Tennessee is thus in court today protesting that when Congress enforces civil rights laws like the ADA against the states, it offends that state's "dignity." The notion that states somehow have more "dignity" than a man crawling up a staircase is one of the jewels in the crown of the Rehnquist court, where over the past decade a "federalism revolution" has exploded, immunizing states from suit in areas ranging from gender discrimination to disability law to environmental protection.
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
dahlia on pedophiles
Vile, Vile Pedophile: Is child molesting a sickness or a crime? This'll be sure to create a ruckus on Slate's The Fray.
Friday, January 02, 2004
the first dahlia jurisprudence column of the new year
Little Man Tate: Florida's young murderer and the insanity of our competency laws.
