Book Review: “Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences”

There’s no question that the Supreme Court, like so many other institutions in the US, is under increasing scrutiny, facing growing skepticism — and sometimes downright hostility — from the broader American public. Many things have contributed to this changing attitude, including Mitch McConnell’s stymying of Merrick Garland’s nomination, his subsequent hypocrisy in pushing through Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Now, in Joan Kiskupic’s new book, Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences, we see how today’s Court came to be and how its composition, and public attitudes towards it, will have a major role to play in the decades to come. <a href="https://medium.com/reluctant-moderation/book-review-nine-black-robes-inside-the-supreme-courts-drive-to-the-right-and-its-historic-68c4d7ff3177">Read More</a>