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The Republicans began plotting their takeover of the Supreme Court
thirty years ago. Brett Kavanaugh set his sights on the court right
out of law school. Washington Post journalist and legal expert Ruth
Marcus goes behind the scenes to document the inside story of how
their supreme ambition triumphed. The Kavanaugh drama unfolded so
fast in the summer of 2018 it seemed to come out of nowhere. With
the power of the #MeToo movement behind her, a terrified but
composed Christine Blasey Ford walked into a Senate hearing room to
accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault. This unleashed unprecedented
fury from a Supreme Court nominee who accused Democrats of a
"calculated and orchestrated political hit." But behind this
showdown was a much bigger one. In Supreme Ambition, Washington
Post journalist and legal expert Ruth Marcus goes behind the scenes
to document the thirty-year mission by conservatives to win a
majority on the Supreme Court and the lifelong ambition of Brett
Kavanaugh to secure his place in that victory. In that sense,
Marcus has delivered a master class in how Washington works and an
unforgettable case study in supreme ambition. The reporting in
Supreme Ambition is also full of revealing and weighty headlines,
as Marcus answers the most pressing questions surrounding this
historical moment: How did Kavanaugh get the nomination? Was Blasey
Ford's testimony credible? What does his confirmation mean for the
future of the court? Were the Democrats outgunned from the start?
On the way, she uncovers secret White House meetings, intense
lobbying efforts, private confrontations on Capitol Hill, and lives
forever upended on both coasts. Supreme Ambition is a page-turner
that traces how Brett Kavanaugh deftly maneuvered to become the
nominee; how he quashed resistance from Republicans who worried he
was too squishy on conservative issues and from a president
reluctant to reward a George W. Bush loyalist. It shows a
Republican party that had concluded Kavanaugh was too big to fail,
with senators and the FBI ignoring potentially devastating evidence
against him. And it paints a picture of Democratic leaders
unwilling to engage in the no-holds-barred partisan warfare that
might have defeated the nominee. In the tradition of The Brethren
and The Power Broker, Supreme Ambition is the definitive account of
a pivotal moment in modern history, one that was thirty years in
the making and that will shape the judicial system of America for
generations to come.
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