Quotes by Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick

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.

Judging

Lenient

Thinking

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?

America

Animal

Judging

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.

Administration

American History

Years

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

Rocks

Stars

Thinking

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.

Atheist

Dream

Men

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

Left

Thinking

Wanted

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.

Court

Justice

Wonder

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.

Book

Firsts

Talking

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.

Agreement

Grateful

Thinking

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.

Locks

Moving

People

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Inspired

Integrity

Judging

Justice

Left

Lenient

Locks

Men

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Quotes by Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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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