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, March 31, 2004
dahlia on suwa
Where the Wild Things Are: The Supreme Court considers our wide open spaces. Good lines:I mention all this because today's Supreme Court case ostensibly concerns the effects of off-road vehicles on potential wilderness areas. Which sounds like it might make for some glorious, wind-blows-through-your-hair oral argument. But this case is ultimately just about statutory construction, and the only thing blowing through your hair at the high court today is the sound of Justice Antonin Scalia's infinite follow-up questions.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
hiatus
The Dahlia Dispatches will be on hiatus until Steph returns next Wednesday from her vacation.
Monday, March 22, 2004
dahlia on hiibel again
Hiibel Thumpers: The Supreme Court is suspicious.
Thursday, March 18, 2004
dahlia on scalia's letter
Je Refuse! Justice Scalia's letter to the American people ("For some of us, law school is a protracted exercise in fighting the alluring tractor-beam pull of those Scalia dissents. ('How can something so right feel so wrong?')").
I just read the letter myself this morning; it was fascinatingly long.
dahlia writes about a new bill
Not-So Supreme: The dumb new proposal to veto the Supreme Court.
Monday, March 15, 2004
dahlia writes about chief justice rehnquist
Tough Choices: Chief Justice Rehnquist explains Bush v. Gore.
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
dahlia defends scalia against those calls for recusal
Fighting Words: Leave Scalia alone ("Increasingly, it seems like the worst thing anyone can say about Antonin Scalia is that he is honest and intellectually consistent. He has so many other more interesting faults, I assure you. And if we let him speak without hounding him, we're bound to find more of them.")
Friday, March 05, 2004
dahlia on the blackmun papers
Justice Burps: Shock and awe over the Blackmun papers. Fun lines: "In the four-minute round of student applause [Justice Breyer] was given for such candor [in speaking at the University of Virginia Law School], each of the law students present could have read and outlined one case in preparation for finals. That means several hundred innocent outlines died last Saturday, so that Breyer could be acknowledged as a candid, personable, breathing human being."
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
dahlia on the dudley hiibel case
The Trouble With Hiibel: Is your name really a deep, dark secret? It has this line: "I know I must be wrong on this issue. Wrong or Canadian. And I count on you to tell me why."
