Dahlia Lithwick Quotes - Page 2

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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 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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• 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.

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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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Judging, Say Anything, Hue

  Source: www.slate.com

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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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• 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

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• 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.

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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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Identity Politics, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• 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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