Dahlia Lithwick Quotes - Page 2

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

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Issues, Latina

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

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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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  California, Numbers, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Sex, Couple, Opposites

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Hate, Voice, Marriage Equality

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Years, Administration, American History

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Book, Talking, Firsts

  Source: www.slate.com

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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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Integrity, Hands, Judging

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

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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?

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Animal, America, Judging

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

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• Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Judging, Lenient

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview 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."

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, People, Clerks

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

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• I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Wanted, Left

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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