The Court We Need

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned over the Watergate tapes and Dwight Eisenhower sent the Army into Little Rock for the same reason: in each moment, the Supreme Court was far more popular than the president who had to carry out its ruling. The Court’s authority has never rested on force. It rests on a reservoir of public trust, accumula