Dahlia Lithwick Quotes

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• There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

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  Highways, Misinformation

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• Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

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  Justice, Democracy, Citizens

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• The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

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  Genius, Facts, Constitution

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• There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.

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  Sex, Couple, Opposites

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

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  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

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  Wish, Inspired, Framers

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• Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

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  Believe

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• For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is currently presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. Trump somehow managed to offend surprising numbers of establishment Republicans.

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  California, Numbers, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

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  Religious, People, Firsts

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• I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look across the street, and that, you know, I feel like the discourse has become so overheated that, you know, we talk about everything in the exact tone that seems to sort of preclude reason and to preclude the possibility of agreement.

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  Grateful, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

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  Mean, Government, Police

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• Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

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  Race, Issues, Latina

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

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  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

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  Law, Hey, Lines

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" podcast, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

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  Justice, Wonder, Court

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

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  Thinking, People, Clerks

  "The "A Certain Justice" Transcript". "Amicus" Podcast, www.slate.com. June 16, 2015.

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• We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

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  Times Are Changing, Games, Video

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" podcast, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.

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  Years, Lost, Court

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

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  Views, Law, Coward

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• Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

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  Animal, America, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

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  Past, Years, Echoes

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• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

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  Moving, People, Locks

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• The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

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  Opposites, Boards, Would Be

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• On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how damaging and dangerous it is when Donald Trump calls out Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel. And at the same time, at the end of the day, judges work for us and we can recall them and we can impeach them.

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  Integrity, Hands, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" podcast, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.

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  Book, Talking, Firsts

  Source: www.slate.com

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