"What’s behind the shocking suppression of free speech at U.S. political conventions and the London Games?"

Asks Dahlia Lithwick. Word that I searched for in her piece and did not find: Munich .

Someone on the conservative side of the Supreme Court "wants us to know that they’re pissed off, and they want us to know why."

Orin Kerr deduces. But why were they so pissed that they immediately leaked? You'd think these characters would have more self-control. ...

"The fact is that conservative constitutional thought is so much more crisply expressed, and so much more broadly accepted, than liberal thought..."

Concedes Dahlia Lithwick , pondering why liberals (supposedly) don't excoriate the Justices who disappoint them. She notes that "th...

"Zelda Fitzgerald was a Chaos Muppet. So, I must tell you, is Justice Stephen Breyer."

Dahlia Lithwick is doing Muppet Theory. Via Throwing Things .

Critiquing mainstream media and praising Occupy Wall Street, Dahlia Lithwick accidentally slams Barack Obama.

This essay rambles along , excusing OWS for its vague message on the theory that cable TV newsfolk just don't understand: Occupy Wall St...

"I remain unsure that there just are five justices at the high court eager to have the court itself become an election-year issue.."

Says Dahlia Lithwick: And I am not certain that the short-term gain of striking down some or part of the ACA (embarrassing President Obama e...

The Wal-Mart case was decided unanimously, but it was 5-4 in a very important way.

Permit me to explain what is a bit complicated. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which governs class action, there is a set of pre...

I'm Bloggingheadsing with Dahlia Lithwick... and it's all about law.

The episode is titled "Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter" — which is the title of the Tina Turner song I pointed at in my post ab...

"It appears that at least a few of the justices really, really, really just hate the Phelps family and its manner of protest..."

"... and they might even be willing to whip up a little new First Amendment law to prove it." Margie J. Phelps represents Westboro...

It's the first Monday in October, time for people like Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick to tell us "the court has taken the law for a sharp turn to the ideological right..."

"... while at the same time masterfully concealing it." And, annoyingly enough — to them, anyway — ordinary Americans still think...

"Judge Vaughn R. Walker is not Anthony Kennedy. But when the chips are down, he certainly knows how to write like him."

Writes Dahlia Lithwick, seemingly knowingly... I count—in his opinion today —seven citations to Justice Kennedy's 1996 opinion in Romer ...

What was my original reaction to other reports that turned out to be hoaxes?

Let me answer a couple questions asked by commenters in the previous pos t, the post that expresses doubt about the report -- filed by Ashle...

When "Above the Law Idol" really starts to feel like "American Idol."

I've said that judging this competition, I don't feel like the Paula , but when I saw this , I felt like Paula that time Corey Clark...

Above the Law Idol — and I'll be a judge.

Here 's the explanation. And here 's a comment I completely predicted when David asked me to be a judge: Althouse = Paula Abdul. No...

"Scalia almost chortles. "Did you ever hear the expression 'hoist by your own petard?'"

Dahlia Lithwick describes the oral argument in Kennedy v. Louisiana , the case about the constitutionality of imposing the death penalty fo...

Oral argument in the campaign finance case.

Here 's Linda Greenhouse's write up on the Supreme Court argument in the Wisconsin Right to Life case, which is about the provision ...

At the "Writing About the Law" conference.

I'm watching the second panel at the conference now. My panel -- about law review writing -- is over, but you can read about it over her...

John Roberts and the "constitutional crisis" of an underpaid judiciary.

A subject I considered too boring to write about is the Chief Justice saying -- in his year-end report ( PDF ) -- that federal judges should...

Chief Justice Roberts -- he's telegenic.

And he's helping the home viewer tolerate the power of the judiciary... says Dahlia Lithwick : Unlike Justice David Souter, who loathes ...

"We’re going to be in a kind of bog of mixtures of constitutional law, unclear Oregon state law... et cetera."

Justice Breyer fretted yesterday in the course of the oral argument in a case about the constitutional restrictions on punitive damages. Th...