Title: Justice on Trial Pdf The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Author: Mollie Hemingway
Published Date: 2019-07-09
Page: 256
#1 Publisher’s Weekly, Hardcover Nonfiction #1 Amazon Best-Sellers, Nonfiction #1 WSJ Nonfiction eBooks #2 WSJ Nonfiction combined print and ebooks #2 Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers, Hardcover Nonfiction #2 Barnes and Noble, Hardcover Nonfiction #2 Apple Books, Nonfiction #3 USA Today, Overall Books “It is to be hoped that this fine, even-handed book will help to bring an end to the political savagery that has characterized all too many Supreme Court confirmation hearings.” Author: MARY ANN GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University“Justice on Trial reads like a John Grisham novel, filled with intrigue and well-paced plot development that’s a roller-coaster ride even if we know how it ends. This is destined to become the definitive account of a crucial episode in American life.” Author: ILYA SHAPIRO, Cato Institute“A riveting inside look at the nasty politics of character assassination that have plagued the confirmation process going back to my father, Robert H. Bork.” Author: ROBERT H. BORK JR., president, Bork Communication Group“Even if you closely followed the confirmation hearings, you will learn a lot from this real-life legal thriller.” Author: JOSH BLACKMAN, South Texas College of Law, author of Unraveled“An amazingly well-sourced, behind-the-scenes chronicle of a Supreme Court nomination process that became a national circus. Everyone concerned with how broken the judicial confirmation process has become needs to read this riveting blow-by-blow account.” Author: RANDY E. BARNETT, Georgetown Law School, author of Our Republican Constitution“The authors’ deep knowledge of the players and the constitutional stakes shines throughout the book and makes for a thrilling and revealing read.” Author: EDWIN MEESE III, 75th U.S. Attorney General"[A] brand new smash book with enormous amounts of actual real reporting, interviews, behind-the-scenes fact-digging and analysis… You won’t get it anywhere else unless you get this book.” Author: Laura Ingraham, Fox News MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, a senior editor at The Federalist and a contributor to Fox News, is one of the country’s most thoughtful, prescient, and respected political commentators. CARRIE SEVERINO is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
A faithful, riveting account of a nation's moment of madness While unapologetically coauthored by two conservatives, it’s fair to say, “Justice on Trial” is a riveting, enthralling book. I followed the entire hearings at the time, and here in one place is an accurate compilation of the key elements, bookended by a background on vituperative judicial hearings which began with Bork (second chapter), and an extended essay on the future of judicial “originalism” versus “activism” (last chapter). In between is a nail-biting story that just gets weirder and weirder as the venom and looniness increase. It’s the best political book I’ve read since “Game Change” and "Shattered."One of the strangest chapters is a compilation of the mania of the mobs, beating on doors, being hauled away by the cops, mailing coat hangers to senators, etc. The “fight with everything we have” approach of Schumer, Harris, and Booker culminates on the eve of confirmation with the chapter “All Hell Breaks Loose,” where the woman Ford appears, suddenly, after Feinstein kept Ford's letter secret for 20 days before springing it on the nation at the last minute.Without taking anything away from the book, there are limitations of the written word compared with the actual videoed hearings. Remember Ford's streamed testimony, with her equivocations, memory lapses, supposed fear of flying, the "second front door" that wasn't, and “recovered memory” 30 years later. She didn’t know the year of the assault, or the house, how she got there, how she got home—a 3 hour walk, we are to believe. Supposed party attendees had no recollection of a party or an assault.Supposedly she hadn’t wanted to go public, but earlier had contacted the Washington Post, retained a radical lawyer (recommended by Feinstein), took a lie detector test with no transcript available, and scrubbed clean her anti-Trump social postings. Seeing her live and in person, any rational person could tell she was delusional. By contrast, seeing Kavanaugh defend himself against unfounded and unverified charges with passion and conviction—and yes, disgust—is hard to convey by the written word. And yet, “Justice on Trial” does it well.Regrettably missing from the book (as mentioned by others here) is an investigation into who leaked the letter in the first place—my guess is Sen. Hirono—and a fuller explanation of the final FBI investigation which found no evidence confirming Ford’s assertions and dismissed them out of hand. I can only think that the quick writing turnaround made this further effort impossible. But what we have here is quite enough to illustrate how mad many in the country have become.About the authors’ conservatism: It comes through most tellingly in their respectful treatment of Ashley and Brett Kavanaugh’s faith. It’s mentioned several times without a hint of a sneer. I can only imagine what subsequent books from others will do with this material. The authors also are plain in their judgement of the haters. The writers’ stupendous amazement is clear at the manic mobs, senatorial F-bombs, spittle-sprayed denunciations, and even (yes) threatened violence between senators. Further, the authors' judgement of blatant media bias with absolutely no exculpatory reporting throughout the hearings rings true and accurate. The reporting is thorough. There is no “bias” when what’s before our very eyes is so obvious. Buy this book.A DC thriller, but real I got to read this book before it came out, and I read it in about 2 days. This is both a historically interesting book about a significant event for our country, as well as a fun, exciting story. The authors clearly had GREAT access to Justice Kavanaugh, and there is new information in here that the public has not seen or heard before. Highly recommended.Could not put it down.. This would be an unbelievable fiction, it is sad that it is not Fiction, but what really happened in our country.. I have to admire what Justice Kavanaugh had to go through and still wanted to serve our Country..Curious what will happen when President Trump nominates the next Justice...A great read.. Swamp..
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