A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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Covering the Supreme Court
I think there's something intoxicating about covering the court on a permanent basis, having that hard pass. It draws them into this world where nobody questions each other's motives and everybody agrees we're just doing law. The fact that they can debate archaean cases in a way that's intellectually interesting doesn't mean that when a big abortion case comes they aren't all going to revert to their personal and political preferences. That is a dicodome that's difficult to grasp if you are not enmeshed in this world.
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