Supreme Court Review: Election Year Issues & Highlights of Last Term

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2012 · Education

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Dahlia Lithwick of Slate Magazine presented her views on the Supreme Court's most noteworthy decisions of its recent term, identified emerging trends on the court and looked ahead to the next judicial term.

Speaker Biography: Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor and legal correspondent at Slate, where she writes the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns. She is also a bi-weekly columnist for Newsweek. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Washington Post, The New Republic and the Ottawa Citizen, among other media outlets. She was a regular guest on "The Al Franken Show" and has been a guest columnist for the op-ed page of The New York Times. 

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