The Nine Have Spoken: The Nation vs. the Supreme Court, 1870 to Today

This first book in the Nation/OR Books co-publishing project argues our reactionary Supreme Court is no aberration, but the endpoint of a long history of demands for a democratic, accountable judiciary that have gone unheeded.

If the right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett holds onto her seat as long as her late predecessor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she will still be hearing cases in 2059. That’s nearly four decades of consequential decision-making, giving the Court’s conservative su...