Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Joan Biskupic
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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Joan Biskupic
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Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it.
Biskupic opens a window onto the opaque, insular world of the justices to show an institution sinking gradually into crisis.
Nine Black Robes is well researched. Biskupic plumbs the papers of the late William Brennan, a liberal appointed by Dwight D Eisenhower in 1956. But her book also contains more than its fair share of chambers chatter.
Ms. Biskupic spoke with 'a majority of the justices,' meaning at least some of the court’s conservatives politely sat for her questions. After using the book to opine that the court is 'off the rails,' 'going backward,' 'laying waste to precedents' and so on, you wonder if she’ll be allowed back into their chambers.
An up-to-the-minute, laser-focused examination of the Court as a whole during what is arguably its most contentious and controversial iteration to date.
Court watchers and civil rights activists alike will find this essential—and disturbing—reading..
A thorough analysis.