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)
Monday, February 23, 2004
dahlia on the san francisco same-sex marriage happenings
Bad City: What's an attorney general to do?
Thursday, February 19, 2004
dahlia writes about the lifting of Senate Democrats' strategy documents by GOP staffers from a shared computer server
Memogate: The Judiciary Committee computer scandal is one gnarly sausage.
Thursday, February 12, 2004
dahlia writes more about changes in traditional gender roles
Be a Man, David: Gender bending in the Minnelli-Gest divorce ("Maybe Gest's lawyers don't fully appreciate the fact that their client presents like a pathetic cross between Blanche DuBois and, well, Liza Minnelli.")
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
dahlia on the fight over gay marriage
Full Faith and Credulous: The president heads down the path of the bigots. A quote:So what is the downside of letting Massachusetts set its own rules and letting the courts chew over the whole mess for a few years? A lack of uniformity. For a while, we'd have a crazy quilt of policies across the country, with some states permitting gay marriage and others banning it. So what? A lack of uniformity is the norm where marriage law is concerned. The only other negative, to the minds of the far right, is that some Americans might be allowed to live in states that accord them the right to marry.Note: every time Dahlia writes about something controversial---especially with regards to social politics for some reason---I get email in my email account addressed to her. Psst, here's a tidbit for you: I am not Dahlia Lithwick; I am merely someone who thinks she makes law approachable, exciting, and enjoyable. This has been your public service announcement for the day.
We call that "federalism."
Friday, February 06, 2004
dahlia on the apprentice
Breast for Success: What's really behind the sex-sells antics on The Apprentice.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
dahlia on the request that scalia recuse himself from the cheney case
Sitting Ducks: Ruffled feathers over the Supreme Court's recusal rules.
