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New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and
well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now
covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something
different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative
that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the
Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts...
The deeper message of 'Nine Black Robes' is that even with a new
president in office we remain captive to the Age of Trump... A
quiet urgency ripples through this informative, briskly paced and
gracefully written book." --New York Times Book Review "Biskupic
opens a window onto the opaque, insular world of the justices to
show an institution sinking gradually into crisis . . . Biskupic is
a longtime chronicler of the court, and "Nine Black Robes" puts on
display her connections within its chambers." --Washington Post
"[Biskupic] knows how to make news and illuminate the personalities
atop the judicial org chart . . . The book reveals unseen
sausage-making . . ." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating and
informative . . . [Biskupic's] long experience covering the court .
. . has put her in an incomparable position to comment on its
make-up, historical positions and direction. It has also made her
privy to many significant, little-known secrets about Supreme Court
personalities and their historical behaviors." --The National Book
Review CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an
urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme
Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift
to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal
of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players. Nine Black
Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court
justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half
century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are
stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how
rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative
majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed
rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years, but the
Trump appointments hastened the modern transformation. With
unparalleled access to key players, Biskupic shows the tactics of
each justice and reveals switched votes and internal pacts that
typically never make the light of day, yet will have repercussions
for generations to come. Nine Black Robes is the definitive
narrative of the country's highest court and its profound impact on
all Americans.
Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, was called
the most powerful woman in America. She became the axis on which
the Supreme Court turned, and it was often said that to gauge the
direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote.
Drawing on information gleaned from once-private papers, hundreds
of interviews, and the insight gained from nearly two decades of
covering the Supreme Court, author Joan Biskupic offers readers a
fascinating portrait of a complex and multifaceted woman--lawyer,
politician, legislator, and justice, as well as wife, mother,
A-list society hostess, and competitive athlete. Biskupic provides
an in-depth account of her transformation from tentative jurist to
confident architect of American law.
If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost
everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable
is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of
larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-plus-year history, it
has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia.
Combative yet captivating, infuriating yet charming, the outspoken
jurist remains a source of curiosity to observers across the
political spectrum and on both sides of the ideological divide. But
for all his public grandstanding, Scalia has managed to elude
biographers--until now. In "American Original: The Life and
Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia," the veteran
Washington journalist Joan Biskupic presents for the first time a
detailed portrait of this complicated figure and provides a
comprehensive narrative that will engage Scalia's adherents and
critics alike. Drawing on her long tenure covering the Court and on
unprecedented access to the justice, Biskupic delves into the
circumstances of his rise and the formation of his rigorous
approach on the bench. This book shows us the man in power: his
world, his journey, and the far-reaching consequences of a
transformed legal landscape.
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