UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Although the U.S. Supreme Court is one of America’s least democratic institutions, the court’s decisions have wide-ranging impacts on American democracy at the national and state level. Dahlia Lithwick, senior legal correspondent at Slate, will explore how the court’s decisions shaped the 2024 election and more in a lecture on March 18 at 4 p.m. in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium at the Lewis Katz Building.
The lecture is sponsored by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy with support from Penn State Dickinson Law and the School of International Affairs.
One of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, Lithwick is host of Amicus, Slate’s weekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. She’s also an MSNBC legal analyst and author of the New York Times bestseller, “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.”
At Slate, Lithwick covered the 2024 presidential election and the early days of the second Trump administration, with a focus on the legality of executive orders issued in the weeks following the inauguration and actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Lithwick has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. She was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit democracy.psu.edu/events.