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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• Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.

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  Judging, Say Anything, Hue

  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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• Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.

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  Giving, Silence, Vote

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

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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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• What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.

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  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Judging, Trump

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.

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  Thinking, Race, Criticism

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

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  Growing Up, Crow, Able

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

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• A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.

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  Thinking, Identity Politics, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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