Dahlia Lithwick
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When It Comes to Abortion, Only One Religion’s Beliefs Count in America
A brief in a case out of Indiana shows exactly how fundamentalist Christian beliefs trump everything else in the courts these days. → Read More
Let’s Stop Pretending Clarence Thomas Can Read the Framers’ Minds
There's a better way for the courts to be thinking about the Framers and guns. → Read More
Why a Federal Judge Is Asking if Abortion Is Still Maybe Constitutional
Was this an audacious judicial request? Maybe. → Read More
The Worst Judge in America Could Outlaw the Abortion Pill Nationwide. It Gets Worse.
Dobbs was only the beginning. → Read More
The New Kavanaugh Documentary Will Do One Thing. It’s Not Enough.
Its intentions are fine, but the government still has no system for this. → Read More
On This Non-Anniversary of Roe, the Politics of Power Amidst Uncertainty Are Clear
It’s not just the repeal of abortion rights that make the new order clear, it’s everything else that has come with it. → Read More
The Justices Don’t Want to Know Who Leaked Dobbs
Unpacking what was revealed—and the big thing that wasn’t—in the Supreme Court’s new report on the leak. → Read More
The Criminal Code Still Puts a Bull’s-Eye on Medication Abortion–Seekers’ Backs
A look at the state of abortion access more than six months after the Supreme Court did away with the right to abortion. → Read More
The Real Problem with John Roberts’ 2022 Report on the Court
The Chief Justice is burying his head in the sand. when it comes to the biggest problem with SCOTUS. → Read More
House Republicans Have Found a New Way to Do Jan. 6
Another January, another attempt to destabilize the government. → Read More
Why the Jan. 6 Committee Let Ginni and Clarence Thomas Off the Hook
When you’re a justice, they let you do it. → Read More
Why the Supreme Court Doesn’t Want You to Hear Its Opinion Announcements Live
There’s no good reason to withhold this audio from the public. → Read More
What One Black Judge’s Family History Can Teach Us About Justice
This is why representation matters. → Read More
The Supreme Court Seems Less Inclined to End Democracy Than Before
On Wednesday, there were signs of disarmament at the court. → Read More
No One Can Bear the Spectacle of Kanye West
And yet no one can turn away, either. → Read More
The Real Problem With the Second Alleged Leak at the Court
It is not really a question of whether Alito revealed the outcome in Hobby Lobby. → Read More
The Supreme Court Said Abortion Wasn’t Part of the Constitution. So Women Wrote It Into Theirs.
1 in 4 voters said abortion was their top issue. → Read More
The Only Way to Navigate the Election Storm Ahead
The descent into a world in which people who are fundamentally unethical and unserious hold too many levers of power is not normal and it’s not funny. → Read More
The Midterms Are About Vigilantism
There’s a broad new public desire to take the law into one’s own hands because, well, you did the research. → Read More
The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action. They’re Doing It Anyway.
Oral arguments in a pair of much-anticipated cases about the future of affirmative action sprawled over almost six hours on Monday, yet the outcome was obvious within the first 30 minutes: The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority appears poised to overturn almost 50 years of precedent and outlaw race-conscious admissions at institutions of higher education. One case—arising from the… → Read More