Award-winning journalist to discuss the Supreme Court at NCJW event

FLORHAM PARK, NJ — NCJW/Essex will present award-winning journalist Dahlia Lithwick, a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, to discuss the Supreme Court on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Brooklake Country Club, 139 Brooklake Road in Florham Park.

Lithwick writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns for Slate, and functions as a legal correspondent, often providing summaries of and commentary on current U.S. Supreme Court cases. She has been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Commentary, and has appeared as a guest on National Public Radio, CNN, ABC, “The Colbert Report” and as a frequent guest on “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Her work related to the Affordable Care Act won her a 2013 National Magazine Award and she has twice been recognized with online journalism awards for her legal commentary. Additionally, she was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She is co-author of “Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World,” a legal humor book, and “I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp,” a book about seven children from Paul Newman’s camp who have life-threatening illnesses.

Registration is required for this event and is open to the public. This event is free for NCJW/Essex members, but charged for non-members. Attendees can register for the event by calling 973-740-0588 or online at ncjwessex.org.

“The stakes in the upcoming 2016 election regarding the Supreme Court are high and it’s likely that the next president will have at least two or three appointments in the first term,” NCJW/Essex President Shari Harrison said in a press release. “A single Supreme Court vote can alter the political and moral discourse in our country for decades to come. I can think of no one better to explain this impact than the knowledgeable and engaging Dahlia Lithwick. We look forward to hearing about where the court goes from here and why it matters.”

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