Dahlia Lithwick (9/22/2022) on her new book "Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America" (in conversation with with Amy Woolard)
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UVA Law Professor and MacArthur Fellow Danielle Citron, an international expert on online privacy and abuse, will speak about the latest developments at the intersection of technology, public policy, and our daily Internet-driven lives at 6:45pm Tuesday October 11th at the Downtown Library’s Swanson Case Room and also on Zoom; please mark your calendars to join us! Prof. Citron will be “in conversation” with UVA History Prof. William Hitchcock, co-host of the Democracy in Danger podcast. Q&A will follow.
Full info about Danielle’s is on the Cville Dems website: https://cvilledems.org/event/prof-danielle-citron/
Protection of Immigrants and Refugees: International Neighbors, International Rescue Committee, Sin Barreras.
Women’s Rights
Charlottesville NOW
Abortion and Reproductive Rights Blue Ridge Abortion Fund, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
Racial Justice and Voting Rights Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, League of Women Voters, NAACP, and Virginia Organizing.
Note: these groups are neither affiliated with the Democratic Party nor necessarily endorse its policy positions.
e.g. can we applaud prosecutors who say they won’t prosecute those seeking or providing abortions but complain about prosecutors who refused to enforce gun safety laws?
Legal journalist/podcaster Dahlia Lithwick, who lived in Charlottesville 2000-2017, returned “home” Thursday evening, September 22 to give a public talk about her new book, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.
The program:
- Welcoming remarks by emcee Dan Doernberg
- A few remarks by Josh Throneburg, Democratic candidate for the VA 5th District House of Representatives seat
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Dahlia's entire conversation with Amy Woolard, a writer and attorney who is now Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia.
My annotations don't try to summarize Dahlia's answers, just the questions asked by Amy and the audience.
- Audience Q&A
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Lady Justice profiles the women lawyers who worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory.
There was Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis for their 2017 “Unite the Right” violence here in Charlottesville.
And Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban.
And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports.
And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020.
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, 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.
Amy Woolard is a writer and attorney who’s lived and worked in Charlottesville for over 30 years, much of that time working on civil rights policy and legislation. Amy is now Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia and previously was Director of Policy for the Legal Aid Justice Center. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
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