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Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, ELLE, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post. She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. She received the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001. She was also recently named as one of the top 20 legal thinkers in America, according to Legal Affairs magazine.

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Judge David Hamilton and the fight over God's secular title.

Pop quiz: Which of the following names represents a nonsectarian, universal deity? Allah, Dios, Gott, Dieu, Elohim, Gud, or Jesus? If you answered "none of the above," you are right as a matter of fact but not law. If you answered "Allah," you are ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Hamilton,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Newt Gingrich

The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.

There are good arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators in a federal New York Court. Testifying this morning before the Senate judiciary committee, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed most of them. Holder ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  U.S. Senate,  Eric Holder,  George W. Bush,  Rudy Giuliani

The right's nonsensical arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.

Opposition to the Obama administration's plan to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confederates in a federal court in New York City is hardening into two camps. One is concerned that we may be unwittingly playing into the ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Barack Obama,  Rudy Giuliani,  Zacarias Moussaoui,  Eric Holder

How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.

Omar Khadr saw more legal action today in the span of an hour than he's experienced in the seven-plus years he's been held at Guantanamo Bay. Just as Khadr's plight was the subject of an inquiry before the Canadian Supreme Court, which was looking into ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  Omar Khadr,  Eric Holder,  Barack Obama,  United Nations

The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for teen offenders.

In honor of 40 years of Sesame Street, today's Dispatch is brought to you by the letters L, W, O, and P (stands for life with out parole). And by the numbers 13, 17, and 2,574. And 73. And 9. And also 2. And by many, many other numbers that make you ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Kennedy,  John Roberts,  Clarence Thomas,  Antonin Scalia,  Samuel Alito

Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case testing whether the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits sentencing a teen to life in prison without parole. Punishment is generally deemed "cruel" if it's more than "graduated ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Antonin Scalia,  Anthony Kennedy,  Alan Simpson

Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence?

For you constitutional-law scholars out there with casebooks to update, you may soon have an addition to the growing chapter of cases called "It Sucks To Be You." The facts of Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, the case the Supreme Court hears today, are ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kevin Hughes,  Anthony Kennedy,  Antonin Scalia,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Sonia Sotomayor

Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.

The candles have guttered down into two puddles, and Ellie is fighting sleep as she melts deeper into Cole's lap. Marina's two girls and Sam are piled up in front of the television in the other room in various states of wakefulness. People have had so ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  30 Oct 2009

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Why you can't cancel a family the way you can cancel a TV show.

No fit parent, they contend, could subject his children to a life of chasing wildly after hurricanes, or after appearances on TV reality shows, much less press them into colluding in a national fraud. Early online polls revealed a widespread belief ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Richard Heene,  Kate Gosselin,  Falcon Heene,  Adolf Hitler

Now, We Are All Heenes

America is caught up in a frenzy of Heene-Hatred. So angry are we at the perpetrator of last week’s balloon-boy hoax, we pour out our wrath on him, his wife, cable news, reality shows, and every aspect of our celebrity-worshipping culture that rewards ...

From DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate,  21 Oct 2009

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