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Holder Laughed
The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 18, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Manhattan Transfer
The right's nonsensical arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 16, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Supreme Court Dispatch, Eh
How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 13, 2009   Jurisprudence  
My So-Called Life Without Parole
The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for teen offenders.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 09, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
Forever Young
Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 05, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The Framers on the Framers
Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Nov 04, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
The Gasbags Who Would Break Up Balloon Boy's Family
Why you shouldn't be able to cancel a family the way you can cancel a TV show.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Oct 23, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The $5 Million Man
Paul Clement schools the high court on why some attorneys are worth every last penny.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Oct 14, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
Cross-Eyed
The high court looks again at religious symbols on public lands.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Oct 07, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
This Case Is a Dog
The Supreme Court mauls the law banning animal-cruelty videos.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Oct 06, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
Spoonfuls of Sugar
Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 26, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The End Has No End
Checking in with my Saving Face readers and collaborators.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 18, 2009   Fiction  
Saving Face
Chapter 19: What Erica finds in the basement closet.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 10, 2009   Fiction  
Unprecedented
Watching the Supreme Court make its campaign finance jurisprudence disappear.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 09, 2009   Supreme Court Dispatches  
Saving Face? Or Losing My Mind?
I'm going to try to write a chick-lit novel in real time. In less than a month. And I really need your help.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 08, 2009   Fiction  
Not Innocent Enough
The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 05, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Blown Away
What's the best bubble-blower on the market?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Sep 01, 2009   Shopping  
Halfway There
Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Aug 25, 2009   Jurisprudence  
306 Syllables on Sotomayor
The Senate judiciary committee explains its votes in haiku form.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 28, 2009   Jurisprudence  
The Next Justice
Will the "Sotomayor standard" make it harder for Obama to seat his next justice?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 25, 2009   Jurisprudence  
What We Didn't Learn
We know less about Sonia Sotomayor now than we did a week ago.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 16, 2009   Jurisprudence  
What a Waste
The Sotomayor hearings were a mass of missed opportunities for Republicans and Democrats alike.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 15, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Honesty at Last!
At Sotomayor's hearing, the abortion protestors are the only ones telling the truth.  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 14, 2009   Jurisprudence  
She's Come Redone
Senators at today's hearing were determined to cast Sotomayor as over-the-top. Why didn't she fight back harder?  
Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 13, 2009   Jurisprudence  
Slate's Dialogue on the Sotomayor Hearings
How Sotomayor fits into Obama's definition of bipartisanship.  
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and Dahlia Lithwick   Jul 13, 2009   Dialogues  
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