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MSNBC Claim SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Ignores Dignity Of 'Millions'

December 6th, 2022 11:32 AM

Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick joined MSNBC The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle on Monday to recap the day’s Supreme Court oral arguments in case over whether someone can be compelled to provide services for same-sex weddings in violation of their religious beliefs. Lithwick was dismayed at the idea, accusing the Court of relying on “dumb hypotheticals” and…

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Mitchell Mourns 'Last Truly Great Day In The Supreme Court'

September 23rd, 2022 2:16 PM

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell welcomed Slate senior legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick onto her Friday show to promote her new book is Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America and to declare that “many women” have questions about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and mourn “the last truly great day in the Supreme Court.”

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Self-Styled Catholic MSNBC Host Accuses Court of Imposing Catholicism

June 25th, 2022 1:19 PM

Maria Teresa Kumar is a self-proclaimed Catholic and former member of the board of Planned Parenthood. She was also the Saturday guest host of MSNBC’s Velshi where she accused the Supreme Court of implementing Catholicism across the country after it struck down Roe v. Wade.

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MSNBC Mourns 'Very Dark Day in America' After Roe Falls

June 24th, 2022 2:07 PM

Even by MSNBC standards, the network’s reaction to the downfall of Roe v. Wade was extreme as they mourned this “very dark day in America.”

Slate Complains WaPo ‘Spotlighting Disturbing Alternative’ to Abortion

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November 18th, 2021 8:47 AM

In light of the state banning abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected in September, The Washington Post published two articles this week that profiled Texas women who run Christian, pro-life charities. To many pro-lifers, it was surprising and welcome coverage of the good works of a crisis pregnancy center and a maternity ranch, Catholic and evangelical, respectively…

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MSNBC Panel MELTS DOWN Over Barrett Nomination

September 27th, 2020 7:48 PM

On Saturday night’s American Voices, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez melted down with Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick, civil rights attorney Maya Wiley, and Rewire News Group senior editor Imani Gandy over President Trump nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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Stelter: 'List of Potentially Impeachable Conduct Grows...Every Week'

September 17th, 2019 8:14 AM

CNN host Brian Stelter opened Sunday’s edition of Reliable Sources with a discussion about the “I” word: “impeachment.” Stelter argued that “President Trump is winning the messaging war about impeachment.” Echoing the talking points Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick made on the show two weeks ago, Stelter claimed that “the list of potentially impeachable conduct grows longer every week.”

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Slate's Lithwick: Trump Performs Impeachable Actions on 'Weekly Basis'

September 2nd, 2019 6:35 PM
On Sunday’s edition of Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter discussed how “writers from both sides of the aisle” have recently weighed in on the concept of “Trump fatigue.” Stelter’s guest for the segment, Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick, definitely had a severe case of “Trump fatigue.” Lithwick talked about how President Trump was making her “physically ill” and referenced one of her…
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MSNBC Kavanaugh Coverage: 27 Guests, ZERO Conservatives

July 10th, 2018 3:02 PM
On Monday night, MSNBC prime-time shows spent the vast majority of their time discussing President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. Of the 27 guests which appeared over the four-hour block from 8:00 p.m. to midnight ET, not a single conservative was given time to speak about the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

Slate Writer: ‘The GOP Has Lost Its Last Ethical Moorings’

December 7th, 2017 2:36 PM
Democrats have taken two high-profile casualties this week in the war over sexual misconduct, while Republicans, at least for now, are unscathed. That state of affairs doesn’t sit well with Dahlia Lithwick, who worries about principled Dems putting themselves at a general competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis sleazy GOPers.

Slate Bemoans 'Far Right' Thomas's Former Clerks Fill Trump Admin.

August 3rd, 2017 8:40 PM
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern hyped in a Wednesday item for Slate that "hard right" Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's "fingerprints are all over" the Trump administration, due to the fact that many of his former clerks now hold "high places" there. Litchwick and Sterm played up that Thomas's "once-fringy ideas are suddenly flourishing," and touted that he is "close buddies with Rush…

Slate: Resentment of Political Correctness Unites Trump, Thomas

August 3rd, 2017 6:01 PM
Clarence Thomas is known for speaking not softly, but rarely, when the Supreme Court holds oral arguments. Nonetheless, he carries a big stick in terms of influence on both the courts and the presidency, warn Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern. Thomas, who in Lithwick and Stern’s words had “spent his career teetering off the right edge of the federal bench,” now “finds himself at the center of…

Media Hypocrisy: Slate Editor in NYT Calls for Overturning Election

December 14th, 2016 8:04 PM
Again showing the hypocrisy of its trumped-up contempt for Donald Trump’s pre-emptive, hypothetical questioning of the election results back when it looked like Hillary Clinton would roll, the New York Times again fosters the fight to keep Trump out of the White House and undemocratically install his Democratic opponent instead. Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor for Slate, coauthored a cri de…

Slate Writer: ‘Current Supreme Court Vacancy Is Not Trump’s to Fill’

November 15th, 2016 5:45 PM
Dahlia Lithwick knows her highly focused resistance movement will fail, but she proposed it anyway. In a Monday piece, the Slate legal analyst exhorted Democrats to “obstruct the nomination and seating” of anyone Donald Trump chooses to succeed Antonin Scalia, because “the current Supreme Court vacancy is not Trump’s to fill. This was President Obama’s vacancy and President Obama’s nomination.…