Justice on Trial - Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino

Justice on Trial

By Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino

  • Release Date: 2019-07-09
  • Genre: Political Science
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 213 Ratings

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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.

Reviews

  • Undeterred

    5
    By Frederick B R
    A magnificent display of courage by Kavanaugh,his family and supporters- A despicable attack by unhinged politicians ,paid assassins, and anti-American psychos America Won
  • Incredible

    5
    By jfox515
    Great book! If you want to know the truth about what was really going on behind the scenes of Kavanaugh’s confirmation read this book.
  • Great Read

    5
    By Siobhan N
    This well-researched book recounts the travesty of lies and delay tactics employed to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court by the Democrat party. The authors begin with the history of contentious Supreme Court nominations, and the various ends used to justify the means of keeping the court an activist, liberal arm of the government.
  • Mind-boggling

    5
    By toddwo2
    Incredible behind-the-scenes look at the Kavanaugh confirmation process. Timely and important. Highly recommend.
  • Learning About what the Press Left Out

    5
    By Kikibo19591961
    This is a story of what we missed when we listened to hearings and press coverage of the Kavanaugh confirmation. The loudest voices aren’t the only ones we should hear when we evaluate the Kavanaugh confirmation process. I learned so much from this book. It renewed my respect for how hard this process was, not only for Kavanaugh and his supporters, but for those of us who are fair minded and wanted to listen to all sides of what became a highly contentious process. Excellent read. Highly recommend.
  • Justice on Trial

    5
    By Larry RB
    I just finished the book and found it extraordinary. I shed many a tear as I read the account. Mollie and Carrie did an incredible job in putting this book togesther. Best I have read in a long time. I have been disappointed in many books I have read from journalists and this was the definite exception.
  • The truth wins out

    5
    By 201Guy
    I can not recommend this thorough and courageous account of the truth strongly enough. It is a fabulous piece of work.

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