Dahlia Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, where she has written for the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her writing has also appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and she has been a frequent guest on the NPR program Day to Day. Ms. Lithwick was awarded the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001.