On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series, The Authoritarian Playbook, with Lisa Graves, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the right-wing influence on the US Supreme Court and other levers of power.
In her new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights, she writes: "This book explains how John Roberts ascended to the Supreme Court and for nearly two decades maintained a reputation as a fair referee despite using the Court to advance a reactionary political revolution in the law to undo widely popular policies. It details the network of billionaire- funded groups engaged in a radical crusade to remake American society through the courts and shows how Roberts is both a cause and a consequence of their efforts.
This corrupt and corrupting effort is not merely an aspect of Roberts’s legacy: It is his legacy. This reactionary agenda and the means used to achieve it are, in a word, unprecedented."
Lisa Graves will be speaking at Book Passage in San Francisco on Thursday, October 16, at 5:30pm.
Guest:
Lisa Graves, founder of True North Research, co-host of the podcast Legal AF, writer of the Grave Injustice Substack newsletter, served as senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, including as chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Patrick Leahy, and author of Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights
Resources:
Grave Injustice by Lisa Graves: John Roberts Got Us Into This Mess and He Is Making It Worse
TPM by Lisa Graves: How John Roberts Won Over the Bush White House and Remade the Supreme Court
Mother Jones: Taking Stock of the Roberts Court at 20—and the Shadowy Forces That Built It
Truthout: As SCOTUS Enters a New Term, These Cases May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority
AP: Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape independent agencies
The New York Times: Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
