Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
Dahlia LithwickThe criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.
Dahlia LithwickThurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
Dahlia LithwickAm I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?
Dahlia LithwickOver the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.
Dahlia Lithwick