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The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
Penguin
February 2007
On Sale: January 23, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 1594201013
EAN: 9781594201011
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Non-Fiction Political
Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court
justices and their
inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan
Crawford
Greenburg offers an explosive, newsbreaking account of one
of the most
momentous political watersheds in recent American history.
Over the past decade, the central front of America's bitter
culture
wars has been the titanic battle over the composition and
direction of
the United States Supreme Court. During that period, no
journalist has
been closer to the action on the ground-the ideas, the
politics, the
personalities, the gamesmanship-than ABC News correspondent Jan
Crawford Greenburg. Now, in Supreme Conflict,
Greenburg draws
on all of her formidable reportorial resources to give a
brilliant,
vivid, astonishingly unvarnished account of the struggle for
the soul
of the highest court in the land.
Greenburg picks
up the plot
with the Rehnquist Court, which, despite having seven Republican
nominees, proved deeply disappointing to conservatives hoping to
reverse decades of progressive rulings on key social issues. She
reveals for the first time the real story behind a series of
failed
Republican nominations that enraged the American
conservative movement
and left it seething with frustration and resolve not to
squander
future opportunities. Enter: George W. Bush and the setting
of the
stage for a full-blown conservative counterrevolution.
Supreme Conflict
contains entirely fresh perspectives across the entire sweep
of its
story, from the conservative movement's early fumbles with the
nominations of justices Anthony Kennedy and David Souter to its
crowning successes with the appointments of justices Roberts
and Alito.
The book breaks news in its revelations about the effect of
Chief
Justice Rehnquist's illness on the process; on the truth
behind Harriet
Miers's disastrous nomination and how it was really
scuttled; and on
how decades of bruising battles led to the triumph of the
conservative
agenda with the appointment of two of its leading judicial
exponents.
Through the entire dramatic story, rich in character and
conflict,
Greenburg never loses sight of the gargantuan stakes in this
struggle,
the opposing ideological agendas at play.
The story Jan
Crawford Greenburg tells is that of the fulcrum event of our
time, the
massive coordinated campaign to move the Supreme Court in a very
different direction, to a more limited and restrictive role
in American
government. A masterpiece of old-fashioned gumshoe
reportage, rich
storytelling, and penetrating analysis, Supreme Conflict
will be the
definitive account of the most consequential shift in the use of
American judicial power in almost one hundred years.
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