{"product_id":"the-scheme-how-the-right-wing-used-dark-money-to-capture-the-supreme-court-9781620978344","title":"The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee\" (\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"There's no senator I can think of who's done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics, particularly as it affects the courts.\"--Jane Mayer, author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eDark Money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news, the paperback version of \u003ci\u003eThe Scheme\u003c\/i\u003e comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, whom Senator Elizabeth Warren calls a \"a powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless, pervasive--and often hidden--power of corporate special interests,\" here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, helped by the infamous \u003ci\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/i\u003e Supreme Court decision, employing the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, and with the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance their anti-government agenda. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomas's recently disclosed conflicts of interest, \u003ci\u003eThe Scheme\u003c\/i\u003e offers what \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620978344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084183371957,"sku":"9781620978344","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9c958364-f65f-4170-85b5-c094b04a4369.jpg?v=1692112239","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-scheme-how-the-right-wing-used-dark-money-to-capture-the-supreme-court-9781620978344","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}