Dahlia Lithwick

Legal Commentator

Host of Slate's ‘Amicus Podcast’

Dahlia Lithwick is one of the nation’s most prominent progressive legal commentators and Supreme Court analysts. She is a senior editor at Slate, where she has written her “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns since 1999 and is the host of the award-winning law podcast “Amicus.” She holds a J.D. from Stanford University and is currently teaching a short course on the Supreme Court and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the University of Virginia Law.

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We Should Expand the Supreme Court

With Akhil Reed Amar, Tamara Brummer, Dahlia Lithwick, Carter Phillips

September 30, 2021

Right now, nine justices hold tremendous power in American law. It's been that way since Ulysses S. Grant first inhabited the White House. The Constitution is silent on just how many justices should sit on the nation's top bench, and in 1937 President Roosevelt tried to add a slew of new appointments that would be sympathetic to his New Deal programs. Congress didn't bite. Now, advocates on the left are eyeing the bench once again. They see a Supreme Court…

We Should Expand the Supreme Court

With Akhil Reed Amar, Tamara Brummer, Dahlia Lithwick, Carter Phillips

September 30, 2021

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