Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

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Overview

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a “national disgrace” and a “circus.”

Justice on Trial, the definitive insider’s account of Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than one hundred key figures—including the president, justices, and senators—in that ferocious political drama.

The Trump presidency opened with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. But the following year, when Trump drew from the same list of candidates for his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the justice being replaced was the swing vote on abortion, and all hell broke loose.

The judicial confirmation process, on the point of breakdown for thirty years, now proved utterly dysfunctional. Unverified accusations of sexual assault became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction, culminating in the melodramatic hearings in which Kavanaugh’s impassioned defense resuscitated a nomination that seemed beyond saving.

The Supreme Court has become the arbiter of our nation’s most vexing and divisive disputes. With the stakes of each vacancy incalculably high, the incentive to destroy a nominee is nearly irresistible. The next time a nomination promises to change the balance of the Court, Hemingway and Severino warn, the confirmation fight will be even uglier than Kavanaugh’s.

A good person might accept that nomination in the naïve belief that what happened to Kavanaugh won’t happen to him because he is a good person. But it can happen, it does happen, and it just happened. The question is whether America will let it happen again.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621579830
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 07/09/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 375
Sales rank: 646,300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Mollie Hemingway, one of America's most respected journalists, is a senior editor at The Federalist, a contributor to Fox News, and the co-author of the #1 national bestseller Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other outlets.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Primary 1

Chapter 2 The List 27

Chapter 3 Complicit in Evil 63

Chapter 4 Mootings, Meetings, and Mobs 85

Chapter 5 All Hell Breaks Loose 117

Chapter 6 Delay, Delay, Delay 135

Chapter 7 Too Big To Fail 159

Chapter 8 Fear of Flying 193

Chapter 9 Miracle 217

Chapter 10 The Anteroom Where It Happened 237

Chapter 11 Mrs. Collins Goes to Washington 261

Chapter 12 Legitimacy 283

Note to readers 307

Acknowledgments 309

Notes 317

Index 367

About the Authors 376

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