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, November 19, 2004
dahlia on arlen specter's pledge "not use a litmus test to deny confirmation to pro-life nominees"
Specter Resurrected: Sworn fealty to the president as the answer to everything.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
dahlia, on the role of the chief justice of the supreme court
Talk About Your Overrated Job: Why would anybody want to be chief justice?
Friday, November 12, 2004
dahlia, on the dog sniffing/car speeder case
The Truth About Cats and Dogs: Bark if you love Justice Souter!
Some funny lines:Justice John Paul Stevens (the Cat in the Hat) then asks whether Caballes was really only driving 6 miles over the speed limit when he was stopped. "I don't imagine you stop everyone on I-80 going 71 miles per hour. ... I know I've done it many times myself," he adds.
"Inadvertently," prompts Scalia, trying to save Stevens' confession from turning into a spontaneous courtroom dog sniff.
She's definitely wrong about one thing, though. Justice Stevens isn't the Cat in the Hat, Justice Breyer is.
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
dahlia, on the canadian tax code case
Bootleg, Eh? The ineffable, unknowable mystery of the Canadian tax code ("It's always fun when the court hears a plain old vanilla statutory construction case. It helps clarify, for one thing, which of the justices can read.")
Sunday, November 07, 2004
dahlia, on moving to canada
Moving to Canada, Eh? Let Slate help you decide if it's really for you. (Note: this isn't a guide---it's propaganda! I mean, it makes Canada sound really really appealing!)
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
dahlia, on the relative absence of election related legal battles
Lawyered Up: The legal nightmare that never materialized.
Monday, November 01, 2004
dahlia, on the voter intimidation claims
File Your Own Election Lawsuit: Slate's handy do-it-yourself pleadings for a more litigious Election Day ("Wishing you the very best of luck on your own pro se adventure").
