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 30, 2005
not-dahlia on the grokster case
Grok Around the Clock: Share those MP3s now—the Supreme Court may try to stop you soon. With lines like:Worse, David Souter piles on. "Go back to the iPod," he tells Verrilli. "I know perfectly well I could go buy a CD and put it in my iPod. But if I also know I could get the music without buying it, why wouldn't I?" This all comes out naturally, as though Souter was listening to his iTunes on the way to work this morning.Emily is giving Dahlia a run for the money.
Monday, March 28, 2005
not-dahlia on today's death penalty appeal
You Picked a Fine Time To Leave Me: President Bush ditches Texas in front of the Supreme Court. (Emily Bazelon writes: "Let's start with the obvious: I'm not Dahlia Lithwick. To Dahlia's devotees—and you are legion—who are thinking of me as Kirstie Alley on Cheers, or the subbed-in Luke on the Dukes of Hazzard, well, sorry about that. But think about it this way: It's not as if Slate has killed Dahlia off. She'd just rather not give birth to her new baby in court. So, until she comes back, skinnier if not well-rested, I'll be keeping an eye on her nine other babies.")
Friday, March 25, 2005
dahlia on the schiavo bill again
Till Death—or Tom DeLay—Do Us Part: The "sanctity of marriage" is suddenly negotiable. ("Of all the ironies at the heart of the Terri Schiavo case—alleged federalists who scoff at federalism; the fact that Schiavo, who's in a persistent vegetative state, has lived off the winnings in the same kind of medical malpractice suit that Republicans in Congress seek to limit—the most astonishing is this: Congressional Republicans who have staked their careers and the last election on the 'sanctity of marriage' have turned this case into a mockery of that very institution.")
dahlia on the schiavo bill
Activist Legislators: The boundless overreaching behind Congress' new Schiavo bill.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
dahlia on female opinion writers
Girl Fight: The marginalized debate over female opinion writers.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
dahlia on the new law and order spinoff
Trial by Tribulation
The rotten new Law & Order spinoff ("Instead of just hinting that all criminals are loathsome pond slime, Wolf chooses to have them open their mouths and remove all doubt.").
This makes me sad. Even though I don't have a tv.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Take Two Tablets: The Supreme Court picks through the rubble of its Ten Commandments jurisprudence.
p.s. I've gotten a lot of mistaken emails lately, so I figure I should state it again---I am not Dahlia Lithwick. I merely run a fan page for her writings. Also, for the next week or so I'll be really slow about email. Changing jobs, stuff like that. Kind of a hassle.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Death Row by the Numbers: The Supreme Court invalidates capital punishment for juveniles.
