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These Women Used the Rule of Law to Challenge Trumpism

In “Lady Justice,” Dahlia Lithwick celebrates the female lawyers, judges and others who stood up to the administration.

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LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, by Dahlia Lithwick

In 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that women had no constitutional right to practice law. Indeed, as Dahlia Lithwick notes in this stirring book, a justice explained that the “natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.” But, in reaction, women mobilized to change the laws — and, ultimately, to become lawyers themselves.

“Lady Justice” focuses specifically on the women who, since the election of 2016, have mobilized against Trumpism and its threats to the rule of law. Combining biography and analysis, Lithwick — a lawyer and writer who covers legal matters for Slate — profiles several members of the profession who may not yet be household names, but who have, in her view, done real work to save American democracy. From Sally Yates and Becca Heller, who fought against the travel ban on Muslim-majority nations in the earliest days of Trump’s presidency, to Brigitte Amiri and Vanita Gupta, two women of immigrant backgrounds who resisted, among other things, the president’s efforts to prevent abortions and separate families at the U.S.-Mexico border, “Lady Justice” illustrates how “in a constitutional democracy, enduring power lies in the people who step into the fight.” Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine. She unabashedly casts them as heroines with the tenacity and courage to resist governmental pressure at crucial moments, but at the same time she rejects a simplistic, naïve narrative of social progress.

Attempting to redress a historical record that routinely denied women credit for their contributions to law, Lithwick notes that “change doesn’t result exclusively from the biographies of a Guy in a Hat Who Did a Thing.” This book, she explains, is not just the story of these people, but one about “timeless constitutional values: dignity, equality, justice, law, truth and reason.” And yet, by the book’s conclusion, the narrative is complicated; chapters that bring us to the present day reveal a reluctant but palpable doubt as to whether American constitutional democracy will, in fact, ultimately empower women.

The subjects of this book were drawn to their profession because law has an inherent logic and structure that can, in theory, achieve justice even in the absence of “brute power.” Lawyers, led by Heller, could show up at airports to find plaintiffs detained under the travel ban, and then file lawsuits invoking the Constitution. After white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, litigators like Robbie Kaplan could invoke the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 on behalf of those injured by the violence, and in so doing stop the perpetrators from continuing campaigns of terror after the march. When the Trump administration tried to stop a pregnant teenager in immigration detention from obtaining an abortion, Amiri could file an emergency petition relying on established constitutional law to restrain the government from preventing the procedure.

These lawyers did not see themselves as radicals; they were working with longstanding institutions and reasoning within frameworks that date to the 18th and 19th centuries. Their faith in our Constitution and our legal system enabled the protection of the powerless.

The narrative’s confidence in those values wavers somewhat in the chapters about the women, including Lithwick herself, who accused the legal profession’s most powerful men of abusive sexual behavior. In 2017, a woman who had formerly clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — known for his spectacular opinions and for sending his clerks on to Supreme Court clerkships — alleged that her boss had shown her pornographic images in his chambers and asked if they turned her on. Another woman who had clerked in the same building reported that Judge Kozinski, in response to her comment that she liked exercising when nobody else was around, had suggested that she work out in the courthouse gym naked.

These two were willing to be named, but others shared similar stories of Kozinski’s behavior without publicly revealing their identities. By their account, all of them felt demeaned and diminished by his conduct. Lithwick, who had clerked for another judge on the Ninth Circuit in 1996, had kept secret her own inappropriate encounters with Kozinski, but, inspired by the upswell of #MeToo, finally wrote about the experience in 2017. Shortly thereafter, Kozinski resigned a judgeship that the Constitution allowed him to keep for life.

In the book’s most poignant moment, Lithwick confronts her own complicity in enabling Kozinski’s continued abuses. For most of his nearly four decades as one of the most powerful judges in the country, she and many other women had known about the ways in which he made young women lawyers feel powerless; indeed, many female law students simply did not apply for clerkships in his chambers, despite knowing it was a proven path to the Supreme Court. (Brett Kavanaugh clerked for Judge Kozinski, then for Justice Anthony Kennedy.)

Women like Lithwick stayed publicly silent, she writes, not only out of fear of career-ending retaliation, but also out of a desire for the career-advancing benefits of playing along: “I’d been allowed to meet Supreme Court justices and to attend fancy parties and had done my fair share of junkets and prestigious events, some of them sitting next to Judge Kozinski himself, largely because I understood the drill: Men were men.” The drill, she now realizes, is that women bought their power with their silence. “I’d kept my own Kozinski story to myself for more than two decades,” Lithwick confesses, because “everyone understands that keeping secrets is part of the bargain.”

Lithwick then offers admiring but sobering portraits of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, the women who accused Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh of inappropriate — or abusive — behavior during their Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Within the judicial appointments process required by the Constitution, even the bravest women, willing to speak up at great personal cost, could not stop the Senate from empowering these men.

As justices, Thomas and Kavanaugh recently cast two of the votes it took for the Supreme Court to end women’s constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies. And, although the lawyers featured in earlier chapters fought Trump’s travel ban with some initial success, five men on the Supreme Court refused to see it as discrimination against Muslims and exercised their power to legitimize the ban.

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

As autumn approaches, grab a warm beverage and take a pick from our latest roundup, which includes Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished interwar novel, a historical critique of white feminism and a look at how the world’s constitutions came to be.

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INSEPARABLE, by Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith.

Originally written in 1954, this previously unpublished novel is based largely on the author’s relationship with a late childhood friend “through whose mirror she sought to loosen the silken chains binding them both to outdated ideals of femininity,” our reviewer, Leslie Camhi, wrote.

A PLAY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, by Jai Chakrabarti.

Inspired by a 1942 performance of a Tagore play in a Warsaw ghetto orphanage, this novel follows a Polish immigrant in 1972 New York who retrieves a friend’s ashes in India, where he is swept up in the production of a play he’d performed as a child.

AGAINST WHITE FEMINISM: Notes on Disruption, by Rafia Zakaria.

Making a case for a global, intersectional approach to gender politics, Zakaria methodically dismantles Western feminism and its individualist and exclusionary roots by drawing on examples of discriminatory aid organizations, the writings of Audre Lorde and more.

THE GUN, THE SHIP, AND THE PEN: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, by Linda Colley.

An eminent British historian examines the forces that paved the way for the proliferation of constitutions across the West during the 18th century, from wars and revolutions to advancements in communication and globalization.

PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: Reports From a Haunted Present, by Dara Horn.

The 12 essays in this collection explore how Jewish tragedy is commemorated by the media, museums and literature in ways that are comforting distractions from “the very concrete, specific death of Jews,” as our reviewer, Yaniv Iczkovits, noted.

THE RECIPE FOR REVOLUTION, by Carolyn Chute.

Chute’s third novel to take place in the world of the Settlement, a farm cooperative in rural Maine that is home to the economically hopeless, retains a nontraditional plot where characters slowly emerge and recede while the author meditates on reality, humanity and capitalism.

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Lithwick might have started “Lady Justice” with the goal of telling the inspiring story of dedicated women rescuing American constitutional democracy from the Trump era. But even after the presidential election of 2020, threats to this same democracy are prolonging the battle for what many consider the nation’s soul. As the epilogue’s account of the Dobbs case indicates, Trump-appointed justices of the Supreme Court now have the authority to enforce wildly different definitions of dignity, equality, justice, law, truth and reason than those advanced by the women who animate this book. As disturbing as it is inspiring, “Lady Justice” leaves this reader wondering if women can ever achieve power in this system without being silenced into complicity.

Julie C. Suk is a law professor at Fordham University and the author of “We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment.”

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“Stirring…Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.”— New York Times Book Review

“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice , Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope.” —Boston Globe

Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won

After the sudden shock of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done?

Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren’t going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020.

These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. And as the country confronts the news that the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, will soon overturn Roe v. Wade , Lithwick shines a light on not only the major consequences of such a decision, but issues a clarion call to all who might, like the women in this book, feel the urgency to join the fight. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time, Lady Justice is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans.

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In  Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America , Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency on September 9, 2022.

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“We Have So Much Magical Thinking About Equality”: A Q&A with Legal Expert Dahlia Lithwick

Veteran legal writer dahlia lithwick holds forth on women's rights, the constitution, and why sometimes canadians can see the u.s. more clearly than its own citizens..

Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent for Slate. In 2013, she won a National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. Her new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America is published this week by Penguin Press. Recently Observer executive editor James Ledbetter sat down with Lithwick; this transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

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Observer: One of the things that you argue in the book is that there’s a special relationship between women and the Constitution. That’s far from obvious, because in the original version of the Constitution, for example, women weren’t in it. Why do you say that and what does that mean?

Dahlia Lithwick: I was thinking in terms of women and the law: What does it mean to be emphatically in a system that controls everything you do, but that system for the longest time gave you no voice and no power? In fact, you were chattel and property. And then to be vaulted into this present consciousness where we all think everything works, we’re equal. We have equal pay, we have power, if we don’t like it, we can vote. I’m very, very interested in the illusion that women have all the power that the entire legal system and constitutional system brings us to this moment where we’re equal. But in fact, we’re subject to a history that is so freighted with inequality, that it’s just very easy with the stroke of a pen for Justice Alito to just say, “Look, the word abortion isn’t in the Constitution. I guess you’re screwed.” So I guess what I’m saying is it’s a special relationship because it’s everywhere and nowhere.

Should we think about it as a kind of false consciousness—that there’s an illusion of equality but actually we need the Constitution to be more rigorously enforced in order to create that equality? Or is it impossible to undo the injustices that were in the early Constitution?

One of my obsessions this past year after Texas passed the vigilante abortion bill and the Supreme Court was just like, cool, cool, cool. Then Dobbs was argued and it was manifest that Roe was going to get overturned, and then July comes and everybody’s shocked that it’s overturned. That’s I think the false consciousness you’re describing. We have so much magical thinking about equality and these legal protections that when they’re taken away we’re like: how could this have happened? And the last thing I would say on false consciousness is that my real obsession has been these black women scholars, including Pauli Murray, who starts the book, Peggy Cooper Davis, and Dorothy Roberts, who’ve been writing for decades and decades that what you and I are seeing now is the lived experience of black women throughout history.

You mentioned Pauli Murray. I’m going to guess that most people have never heard of her. Who was she? Why did you start the book with her?

First, I would note that if Pauli Murray were alive today, they might want to be called they. Murray strongly believed she was a boy born into a girl’s body. She was kind of the Where’s Waldo of the modern racial and gender justice movements. She was everywhere. And yet history almost entirely papered over her. She sat at the front of a bus and refused to move long before Rosa Parks did it. She was desegregating lunch counters long before it was cool in the civil rights movement. She wrote a paper that without her knowledge or consent becomes the spine of Brown v. Board of Education. She only finds out years later that she was really the architect of some of the stuff that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was later doing in her gender litigation. I will say they named a residential college at Yale after Pauli Murray a few years ago; I’m not sure even the students who live there know what this person accomplished in their life.

Your chapter on #MeToo takes on a figure who is very logical, but much less known than Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby. But with Alex Kozinski there’s a personal connection.

I don’t love writing about myself. I had to write about Judge Kozinski. He is the former chief judge of the ninth circuit. He is a phenomenal, brilliant thinker and writer, and he said things no one dared to say. One woman after another, after another came forward to say he had horrifically either kind of abused them in the workplace or had showed them porn or talked explicitly about sex to them.

I found myself in this horrible position of having known this all along as a journalist and as a former law clerk and never, ever reported it. I had told friends, it was an open secret and yet I had kept the secret for decades. And so my chapter was a reflection on kind of complicity, in which I allowed myself to sit next to him at panels and go to events with him. I have a deep sense that some of the women who came forward only ever wanted one thing: an adjudicatory process in which the federal judiciary simply examined their claims and made a finding so that we could all say “this happened.” And the utter absence of that, both for Kozinski and later for Kavanaugh is one of the lasting enduring failings, both of the federal judiciary, but also of the #MeToo system generally.

We’ve been reading recently about waves of voter registration in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson, particularly places like Kansas. Do you think this is sufficient to make a difference in the November elections?

The numbers that I’m seeing and what we saw in Kansas, what we’re seeing in Michigan, the special election in New York, certainly suggest that women are registering. It’s hard to deny those polling numbers. I think that the thing we need to think about now is lashing that outrage to real power, and to real systemic change. One of the reasons the book ends with fixing systems and voting is it’s not enough to just be mad about Dobbs , it’s what’s happening in your state house, your state elections board, all that stuff has to happen, too.

I couldn’t help when reading this book—thinking about how much passion you put into writing about the American political system and legal system—that you were born in Canada. How did you make that transformation? Why aren’t you writing about Canadian law? You know what I mean?

Yeah, it’s funny. I went to college in the States and then law school in the States and worked in the States, but I’m still on a green card and I never became a citizen. I think it’s clear the book is a love letter to American notions of justice and dignity and equality. But I’m always reminded that some really great writing about the United States came from people who were not from the United States. I think that there’s such utility in that dual identity as both of a country and not of a country. I think of Malcolm Gladwell and David Frum and all the ways in which Canada dominates American comedy. It’s both being of a place, but slightly not of the place enough to see it for all its great strengths, and also sometimes not-so-evident weaknesses.

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LADY JUSTICE

Women, the law, and the battle to save america.

by Dahlia Lithwick ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 2022

Required reading for this post-Dobbs world.

The senior legal correspondent for Slate looks at the responses of women lawyers to the Trump era.

“Something extraordinary happens when female anger and lawyering meet,” writes Lithwick, who begins with oral arguments in the 2016 case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt before three female justices. She closes, of course, with the June 24, 2022, decision in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization . In the author’s telling, that span represents not only the nation’s six-year slide into an abyss, but also a time when women lawyers mounted dogged, directed resistance. Between starry-eyed opening and grim conclusion, she profiles women lawyers whose stories provide a contextualizing capsule tour of the era and offer some bracing hope. Readers will reconnect with Sally Yates, the acting attorney general who almost immediately found herself standing up to her new boss when he executed his first travel ban, and learn that the Democrats’ success in Georgia in 2020 and 2021 was mostly due to Stacey Abrams’ methodical, 10-year plan to mobilize Georgia’s Democratic vote. We also meet Nina Perales of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who successfully litigated against adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census; and the ACLU’s Brigitte Amiri, who defended the right of a pregnant 17-year-old refugee in U.S. custody to get an abortion—ultimately winning a case in which then–Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s preliminary opinion arguably paved his way to the Supreme Court. In this same profile, the author reveals that the same Office of Refugee Resettlement apparatchik who directed his staff to stop keeping track of the children separated from their families at the border also scrupulously maintained his own records of the menstrual cycles of the girls in custody. Though the text is necessarily bristling with names of court cases, Lithwick’s writing is friendly to lay readers and marked by her trademark pithy wit and an endearing faith in the promise of the legal system. “Women plus law equals magic,” she concludes.

Pub Date: Sept. 20, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-525-56138-5

Page Count: 368

Publisher: Penguin Press

Review Posted Online: July 26, 2022

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2022

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From the pocket change collective series.

by Alok Vaid-Menon ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 2, 2020

A fierce, penetrating, and empowering call for change.

Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence.

The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary. Gender assignments create a narrative for how a person should behave, what they are allowed to like or wear, and how they express themself. Punishment of nonconformity leads to an inseparable link between gender and shame. Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments against gender nonconformity, breaking them down into four categories—dismissal, inconvenience, biology, and the slippery slope (fear of the consequences of acceptance). Headers in bold font create an accessible navigation experience from one analysis to the next. The prose maintains a conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the same time, the author's turns of phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and poetry. In one reflection, they write, “the most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.” While this short essay speaks honestly of pain and injustice, it concludes with encouragement and an invitation into a future that celebrates transformation.

Pub Date: June 2, 2020

ISBN: 978-0-593-09465-5

Page Count: 64

Publisher: Penguin Workshop

Review Posted Online: March 14, 2020

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2020

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POVERTY, BY AMERICA

by Matthew Desmond ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 21, 2023

A clearly delineated guide to finally eradicate poverty in America.

A thoughtful program for eradicating poverty from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted .

“America’s poverty is not for lack of resources,” writes Desmond. “We lack something else.” That something else is compassion, in part, but it’s also the lack of a social system that insists that everyone pull their weight—and that includes the corporations and wealthy individuals who, the IRS estimates, get away without paying upward of $1 trillion per year. Desmond, who grew up in modest circumstances and suffered poverty in young adulthood, points to the deleterious effects of being poor—among countless others, the precarity of health care and housing (with no meaningful controls on rent), lack of transportation, the constant threat of losing one’s job due to illness, and the need to care for dependent children. It does not help, Desmond adds, that so few working people are represented by unions or that Black Americans, even those who have followed the “three rules” (graduate from high school, get a full-time job, wait until marriage to have children), are far likelier to be poor than their White compatriots. Furthermore, so many full-time jobs are being recast as contracted, fire-at-will gigs, “not a break from the norm as much as an extension of it, a continuation of corporations finding new ways to limit their obligations to workers.” By Desmond’s reckoning, besides amending these conditions, it would not take a miracle to eliminate poverty: about $177 billion, which would help end hunger and homelessness and “make immense headway in driving down the many agonizing correlates of poverty, like violence, sickness, and despair.” These are matters requiring systemic reform, which will in turn require Americans to elect officials who will enact that reform. And all of us, the author urges, must become “poverty abolitionists…refusing to live as unwitting enemies of the poor.” Fortune 500 CEOs won’t like Desmond’s message for rewriting the social contract—which is precisely the point.

Pub Date: March 21, 2023

ISBN: 9780593239919

Page Count: 288

Publisher: Crown

Review Posted Online: Nov. 30, 2022

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2023

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Media star Dahlia Lithwick returns to Charlottesville for book talk

One of the nation’s foremost legal commentators and podcasters, Dahlia Lithwick, will return to Charlottesville on Sept. 22, to talk about her new book.

“Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America” tells the story of the women lawyers who led high-profile battles against racism, sexism and xenophobia exhibited by Donald Trump’s presidency, and won.

Lithwick, who lived in Charlottesville from 2000 to 2017, will speak at Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Dickinson Auditorium, 501 College Drive, at 6:45 p.m. Arranged by the Charlottesville Democratic Committee, she will discuss the book with Amy Woolard, Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia. The evening will include a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Free and open to the public, registration is not required for attendance. “Lady Justice” will be published September 20, 2022.

After Trump won the presidency in 2016 over Hillary Clinton, women lawyers across the United States began to take action to resist the efforts of Trump, Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. “Lady Justic” tells the story of how the women worked for four years “to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory,” a press release stated.

Women featured in the book include Stacey Abrams fighting for voting rights in Georgia, Robbie Kaplan taking on the “Unite the Right” perpetrators of violence in Charlottesville, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates refusing to implement Pres. Trump’s “Muslim Ban” and human rights attorney Becca Heller organizing lawyers at airports to fight it, and the ACLU’s Brigitte Amiri, who defended abortion rights of immigrant minors in detention.

Charlottesville is Lithwick’s second stop on her national book tour after the tour is launched in Washington, D.C. the night before. After Charlottesville, Lithwick, who is the senior legal correspondent at Slate , a news and politics analyst at MSNBC , and host of Amicus , Slate’s award-winning, biweekly podcast about the law, will go to New York.

Lithwick was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2018, and was the recipient of a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act.

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Dahlia Lithwick  is the senior legal correspondent at  Slate,  a news and politics analyst at MSNBC, and host of  Amicus ,  Slate ’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in  The New York Times ,  Harper’s Magazine ,  The New Yorker ,  The Washington Post ,  The New Republic,  and  Commentary , among other places. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2018.

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Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won

After the sudden shock of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done?

Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren’t going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020.

These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. And as the country confronts the news that the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, will soon overturn  Roe v. Wade , Lithwick shines a light on not only the major consequences of such a decision, but issues a clarion call to all who might, like the women in this book, feel the urgency to join the fight. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time,  Lady Justice  is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans.

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Dahlia Lithwick ––  senior editor at Slate and author of the instant New York Times bestseller, LADY JUSTICE –– joined Jen for the inaugural episode of Booked Up. Fresh off her book tour, Dahlia shared her writing secrets, tough love for the Supreme Court, and how she met (and almost scared away) her future husband.  Dahlia is the host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. She is a praise and prize magnet. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg avidly read Dahlia’s “Supreme Court Dispatches,” column, once quipping with admiration, “she’s spicy.”  In 2018, Dahlia received both the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October of 2018. She earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD from Stanford University. Contact Booked Up: You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: [email protected] or by writing to:  BOOKED UP,  P.O. BOX 147 NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061 Get More from Dahlia Lithwick: Twitter | Slate Bio | Author of LADY JUSTICE Get More from Jen Taub: Twitter | Website | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY 

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Dahlia Lithwick –  senior editor at Slate and author of the instant New York Times bestseller, LADY JUSTICE  – joined Jen for the inaugural episode of Booked Up. Fresh off her book tour, Dahlia shared her writing secrets, tough love for the Supreme Court, and how she met (and almost scared away) her future husband.

Dahlia is the host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. She is a praise and prize magnet. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg avidly read Dahlia’s “Supreme Court Dispatches,” column, once quipping with admiration, “she’s spicy.”

In 2018, Dahlia received both the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October of 2018. She earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD from Stanford University.

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February 9, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

Magic City Books and OU-Tulsa are proud to welcome Dahlia Lithwick for an in-person program to discuss her latest book,  Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, on Thursday February 9 at 7:00 pm. This free event is open to the public and will be hosted on the campus of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa.

Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at  Slate,  a news and politics analyst at MSNBC, and host of  Amicus ,  Slate ‘s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her latest book,  Lady Justice , was an instant  New York Times  bestseller and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker.  Lady Justice tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency–and won.

Joining Dahlia Lithwick in conversation will be Barry Friedman. Copies of  Lady Justice  are available now at Magic City Books and will be for sale at the event on February 9. A book signing will follow the program.

You can purchase a copy of  Lady Justice  online and have it signed by the author, https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/lady-justice/977 . Books will ship out starting February 10.

About  Lady Justice

Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency–and won

After the sudden shock of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done?

Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren’t going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020.

These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. And as the country confronts the news that the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, will soon overturn  Roe v. Wade , Lithwick shines a light on not only the major consequences of such a decision, but issues a clarion call to all who might, like the women in this book, feel the urgency to join the fight. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time,  Lady Justice  is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans.

Dahlia Lithwick  is the senior legal correspondent at  Slate,  a news and politics analyst at MSNBC, and host of  Amicus ,  Slate ‘s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in  The New York Times ,  Harper’s Magazine ,  The New Yorker ,  The Washington Post ,  The New Republic,  and  Commentary , among other places. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2018.

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