UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court have wide-ranging impacts on American democracy at the national and state level. Dahlia Lithwick, senior legal correspondent for Slate, will explore how the court’s decisions are affecting the 2024 election and more, in a lecture on Oct. 15 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 Law and the School of International Affairs.

Lithwick is a senior legal correspondent for Slate and the host of "Amicus," Slate’s weekly podcast about the law and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is 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 is covering the 2024 presidential election.

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 the McCourtney Institute of Democracy events page.