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A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how
anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including
the Supreme Court "An absolute must-read." -Congressman Ro Khanna
(CA-17) Following his book Captured on corporate capture of
regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as
a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention
to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it
influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230
"business-friendly" judges, including the last three justices of
the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse traces the motive to
control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo,
which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the
judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada
of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme
Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an
appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the
nominees, orchestrated an "amicus brief" signaling apparatus, and
propped up front-group litigants to "fast-lane" strategic test
cases to the friendly justices. Whitehouse finds the same small
handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running
operations that he likens to "covert ops," ultimately enticing the
Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly
inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti- government
agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs. The world got a
glimpse of this story when the Senator's presentation at the Amy
Coney Barrett hearing went viral. Now, full of unique insights and
inside stories, The Scheme pulls back the curtain on a powerful and
hidden apparatus that has spent years trying to corrupt our
politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy.
“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee†(Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface
on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court
“There’s no senator I can think of who’s done more sleuthing
to figure out the money trail in American politics, particularly as
it affects the courts.â€â€”Jane Mayer, author of the national
bestseller Dark Money As the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and
ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news, the paperback
version of The Scheme comes at a time of crisis for the
American judiciary. Following his book Captured on corporate
capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of
experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, whom
Senator Elizabeth Warren calls a “a powerful voice in defending
our American democracy against the relentless, pervasive—and
often hidden—power of corporate special interests,†here turns
his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the United States
Supreme Court. Whitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using
an armada of front groups, helped by the infamous Citizens
United Supreme Court decision, employing the Federalist
Society as an appointments turnstile, and with the same small
handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations enticing the
Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly
inappropriate nominees who would advance their anti-government
agenda. Now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new
preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about
politicking the justices and Justice Thomas’s recently disclosed
conflicts of interest, The Scheme offers
what Kirkus Reviews calls “a maddening indictment of
a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.â€
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