“The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.” PeopleFirstsReligiousCasesConvictionRationalAphorism Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.” FirstsCreationCourtMereComplicatedDoctrineMortalsEstablishmentAmendmentsPullingFirst AmendmentForumsClausesMere MortalsEstablishment Clause Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.” ThinkingTryingFirstsSaidIdentityJudgingConversationArgumentConservativeTwistedIdentity Politics Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.” FirstsPersonsBookStatesTalkingWrittenCurrentsFirst PersonLouis Brandeis Author:Dahlia Lithwick
