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Episode 5: Verdi, Dante, and Dahlia Lithwick
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Episode 5: Verdi, Dante, and Dahlia Lithwick

A conversation with Slate's Supreme Court reporter about her new book, "Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America"
Professor Anita Hill testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearing on October 11, 1991. Photo credit: R. Michael Jenkins

In Episode 5, I talk to Slate’s legal journalist Dahlia Lithwick about her new book, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (Penguin/Random House, 2022). In this episode, we discuss women’s resistance to Donald Trump, Supreme Court ethics, the recent Hobby Lobby leak, Ginni Thomas, and more.


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  • If you want to learn more about Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General who was fired because she refused to enforce Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim ban, check out Ryan Lizza’s account of this event in The New Yorker, May 22, 2017.

  • Dahlia mentions Rebecca Traister’s writing about women and social movements: one book that complements many of the themes in this podcast is Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon and Schuster, 2018).

  • Dahlia also mentions the ongoing women’s protests in Iran: you might want to read Robin Wright’s article about the origins of those protests, “Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women,” in the New Yorker, October 9, 2022.

  • Learn more about the attack on Charlottesville on August 11 and 12th, 2017, by listening to historian Nicole Hemmer’s personal account of the event in her six-part podcast, A12.

  • Dahlia and I discussed a November 19, 2022, New York Times story by Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker that links Associate Justice Samuel Alito's 2014 leak about the Hobby Lobby decision to a broader pattern of Christian influence on the Court.

  • In our conversation about corruption and the Supreme Court, Dahlia also mentioned Linda Greenhouse’s recent article in The Atlantic,What in the World Happened to the Supreme Court?” November 14, 2022.

    At her November book party, Dahlia Lithwick (left) shares the stage with two feminists whose stories are in Lady Justice, journalist E. Jean Carroll and attorney Roberta Kaplan. Photo by author.

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