Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, and writes the column “Supreme Court Dispatches.” She is also the weekly legal commentator for NPR’s “Day to Day.”

Before joining Slate, Lithwick worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada, and clerked for Procter Hug, chief justice of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications, and she is the co-author of two books. In 2001, she received the Online News Association’s award for online commentary.