Lady Justice, page 43
Ross, Wilbur, 258–63
Rubin, Jennifer, 53
Rucho v. Common Cause, 240
Ruckelshaus, William, 31
Rudolph, Eric, 21
rule of law, 2, 3, 13, 34, 35–36, 153–54
Russian interference in election of 2016, 23–26, 32
S
Sabato, Larry, 75–76
same-sex marriage
Obergefell v. Hodges, 79, 191
religious exemptions, 110
United States v. Windsor, xv, 78–79, 80–81
Sanai, Cyrus, 165
San Francisco International Airport, 52
Sanger, Carol, 7
Saturday Night Massacre, 31
Scalia, Antonin, 108, 189, 191, 195
Schiff, Adam, 14
Schragger, Richard, 67
Scott, Deborah, 284
Scott, Rick, 1
Second Circuit Judicial Council, 175–76
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 244–45, 259
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 224–26, 244, 256
Seeger, Pete, ix
September 11 attacks (2001), 18
Serwer, Adam, 201
Sessions, Jeff, 1, 22, 23, 138, 141–42, 253–54, 259
sexism, xi, 2, 5, 10–11, 182
sexual harassment, xv–xvi, 94–95, 172, 178–79, 181, 183–207
of Kavanaugh, 150, 151–52, 156, 181, 191, 196–204, 211
of Kozinski, 164–80, 187–88
of Reinhardt, 180–83
of Thomas, 159–60, 191–95, 204–5, 214–15
Shah, Deeva, 183–84
Shakespeare, William, 9
Shelby County v. Holder, 225–28, 234, 240, 243–44
Siegel, Reva, 110
Simpson, Alan, 192
Sines, Elizabeth, 85
Sines v. Kessler, 85–93, 96–97
Skokie rally of 1977, 72–73
Slate, 33, 55, 162–63, 170–74, 196, 237
slavery, xiv, 11
Smith, Paul, 255
Solnit, Rebecca, 14
Song in a Weary Throat (Murray), 7
Sorkin, Aaron, 33
Soros, George, 239, 241
Sotomayor, Sonia, 59–60
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, 244
confirmation hearings, 265–66
Trump v. Hawaii, 31
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, xi–xii
Souter, David, 107
South Brooklyn Legal Services, 105
Southern Methodist University, 169–70
Spakovsky, Hans von, 233
Special Immigrant Visa, 41–42
Specter, Arlen, 159
Spelman College, 219
Spencer, Hawes, 75
Spencer, Richard, 68, 70, 86, 91, 96–97
Spicer, Sean, 24
Spitzer, Art, 112
Spyer, Thea, 78–79, 81
Starr, Ken, 195
States’ Laws on Race and Color (Murray), 5
State v. Flores, 101
Statue of Liberty, 17
Stevens, John Paul, 72
Strange Justice (Abramson and Mayer), 192, 193
Summer of Hate (Spencer), 75
Supreme Court clerkships, 161–62
Supreme Court press corps, 189–90
Swisher, Kara, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26–27, 30, 35
Syracuse University, 185–86
Syrian refugees, xv, 18, 26, 45
T
Taft, William Howard, 162
Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8), 208–9, 213, 275–76, 281
Texas Tribune, 136
Then Comes Marriage (Kaplan), 80
Thirteenth Amendment, 4
Thomas, Clarence, xvi, 263
confirmation hearings, 159–60, 191–95, 204–5, 214–15
Time’s Up, xv, 94
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 5, 207
Tomei, Marisa, 33
Traditionalist Worker Party, 70, 86
Traister, Rebecca, 169, 174, 214, 219–20, 221, 229, 230, 231, 238
transgender military ban, 14, 29
TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers), 109
travel ban. See Trump travel ban
Trial, The (Kafka), 190
“trigger” laws, 109
“true threat,” 84–85
Trump, Donald
abortion policy, 2–3, 99–100, 107–9
anti-immigrant rhetoric, xiii, 61–62, 70, 74, 252–53, 260, 271–72
census citizenship question, 263–64
Charlottesville rally, 68, 70, 75, 76, 81–83
election of 2016, xiii–xiv, 1–2, 13, 70, 107–8, 141, 142, 228, 230, 253–54
election of 2020, 34, 222–23, 235, 241, 242, 267–68, 277–78
family separation policy, 14, 62, 125–26, 145–47
immigration policy, 123, 125–26, 128–29
impeachment of, 128
inauguration of, xiv–xv, 11
judicial appointments, xiii, 2, 60, 107–8, 130, 149–50, 195, 201, 208, 265
judicial win rate, 128–29
sexual harassment allegations, xv–xvi, 94–95
travel ban. See Trump travel ban
voting rights and, 253–55
women’s legal resistance to, 6, 7, 10–16. See also specific women
Trump, Mary, xvi, 94
Trump travel ban, 17–18, 26–29, 30–31, 39–42, 46–61
emergency restraining orders against, 56–61
Heller and, 46–51, 53–56, 62–64
public protests against, xv, 51–56
Trump’s withdrawal of order, 61
Yates and, 18, 26–29, 30–31, 49
Trump v. Hawaii, 31, 61–62
Tulia travesty, 135–37, 151–52
U
Ufot, Nsé, 284
Undergraduate, The (Lloyd), 126–27
Underground Railroad, 81
Underneath Their Robes (blog), 163
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 46
United Nations Refugee Agency, 44–45
United Nations World Conference on Women (1995), 250
United States v. Windsor, xv, 78–79, 80–81, 86
University of California, Irvine, 170, 174–75, 178, 237
University of Georgia School of Law, 19
University of Michigan Law School, 181
University of North Carolina, 5
University of Texas, 219
University of Virginia, 68, 74, 75–76
University of Virginia School of Law, 67
US–Mexico border wall, 29, 62
V
Vanguard America, 70
Velázquez, Nydia, 55
Vice News, 88, 119, 227
Viebeck, Elise, 193
Voter Access Institute, 229–30
voter fraud, 34, 152, 233, 253–54, 283
election of 2020 and allegations of, 34, 235, 238–39, 241, 280–81
voter identification (ID), 152, 226–27, 240, 246, 251, 253–55, 266–67
voter registration, 221–22, 223–25, 229–31, 234, 239–40, 277–78
voter suppression, xvi, 223–29, 234, 236–37, 239–40, 242–43, 276, 280–81
voter turnout, 154, 227, 235–36, 256, 278
voting rights, 249–73, 276–80. See also Abrams, Stacey
Perales and, 249–56
Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, 144–46, 152, 223–26, 235, 243–45, 251
preclearance requirements, 224–26, 234, 237, 244, 256
Section 2 of the, 244–45, 259
Section 5 of the, 224–26, 244, 256
Vullo, Maria, 84
W
wage gap, xi
Wallace, Chris, 200
Warburg, Siegmund, 97
Ware, Susan, 5
Warnock, Raphael, 279–80
Warren, Earl, 142, 240
Warren, Olivia, 180–82, 183, 186
Washington Post, 34–35, 41, 78, 94, 95, 116, 161, 185–86, 193, 194, 219
Kozinski allegations, 165–67, 174, 176, 177–78
Watergate scandal, 31
Weinstein, Harvey, 172
“When the Hero Is the Problem” (Solnit), 15
white supremacy, 67–70, 73–74, 82–83, 85–86, 92–93, 276
White v. Crook, 5
Whole Foods, 36
Whole Woman’s Health, 117–18
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, ix–x, xi–xiii, 105, 107–9, 126, 127, 191, 275
Wiedeman, Reeves, 51
Wilkins, Roy, 144
Williams, Nikema, 278
Windsor, Edie, 78–79, 81, 86
Wishnie, Michael, 45, 50, 58
Women and Power (Beard), 282–83
Women’s March (2017), xiv, xv, 12, 36, 53, 106, 128, 250
women’s suffrage, 11
WorldCom scandal, 80
World War II, 252
Y
Yale Law School, 43–44, 45–46, 51, 110, 219
Yale University, 5, 132
Yates, Comer, 18–19
Yates, Sally Quillian, xv, 18–37, 63, 152
background of, 18–22
confirmation hearing, 21–22, 27–28
firing of, xiv–xv, 31–32
prison reform, 22–23
Russian interference and Flynn, 23–26, 32
Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, 32–33
Trump travel ban and, 18, 26–29, 30–31, 49
Yovanovitch, Marie, 128
Z
Zapotosky, Matt, 165, 174
“zero tolerance” policy, 125
Zilly, Thomas, 59
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate 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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