Latest Dahlia Lithwick Quotes from Interviews

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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.

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Grateful, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.slate.com

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Years, Lost, Court

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

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

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Times Are Changing, Games, Video

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

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Justice, Wonder, Court

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Law, Hey, Lines

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Giving, Silence, Vote

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

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.slate.com

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Judging, Say Anything, Hue

  Source: www.slate.com

• 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

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

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Growing Up, Crow, Able

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

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Race, Criticism

  Source: www.slate.com

• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Identity Politics, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.