A national government watchdog with its home here in Charlottesville is getting two more big names for its Board of Trustees. Brit Hume and Dahlia Lithwick have joined the Board for the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the TJ Center announced May 15.
 The Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression doesn’t care if its leaders’ politics lean left or right, so long as they fight to uphold First Amendment rights. Brit Hume of Fox News and Dahlia Lithwick of Slate.com join the Center’s Board of Trustees. |
Hume anchors Special Report with Brit Hume on the Fox News Channel, while Lithwick is a legal correspondent for Slate.com. It was Lithwick who gave the keynote address at last year’s dedication of the First Amendment Monument on the Downtown Mall. Both have local connections: Hume got his undergraduate degree at UVA, and Lithwick lives in Charlottesville.
Fellow trustees in defense of First Amendment rights include local celebs Sissy Spacek and Boyd Tinsley.
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