The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

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A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court

An absolute must-read. Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17)

comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, called a powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless, pervasiveand often hiddenpower of corporate special interests by Senator Elizabeth Warren, 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 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, using 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 the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.

Now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomass recently disclosed conflicts of interest, The Scheme offers what Kirkus Reviews calls a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.

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Praise for The Scheme:
An alarming . . . account of efforts to install conservative judges on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. . . . Whitehouse gathers copious evidence and strikes a fiery tone.
Publishers Weekly

A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kirkus Reviews

A harrowing account of how right-wing billionaires and business interests have worked to capture the American judiciaryall the way up to the Supreme Courtto create an American plutocracy. Anyone who cares about the future of American democracyindeed, the future of America, write largeneeds to read this book.
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science, Harvard University, and author of Merchants of Doubt

Author Bio

Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate. He has served as his states United States Attorney and as the state Attorney General, as well as its top business regulator. The author of Captured and The Scheme (both from The New Press), he lives in Newport, Rhode Island. Jennifer Muelleris a writer based in Washington, DC. She has worked on issues related to campaign finance and political participation as an attorney, academic, and consultant for more than twenty years. She is the co-author (with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse) of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court (The New Press).