without precedent
How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights
“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts’s Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money
“Lisa Graves is a dazzlingly brilliant sleuth of the dark-money apparatus that has corrupted the Supreme Court. Graves’ Without Precedent reveals how Chief Justice Roberts and the other right-wing justices mangled the Constitution in service to a group of shadowy billionaire extremists.” —Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator, Rhode Island
“An eye-popping can’t-put-it-down account, Without Precedent is a must-read for everyone who knows something has gone terribly wrong with the U.S. Supreme Court yet doesn’t understand why. I had to remind myself to breathe while reading this tour de force about the near ruin of our country that Roberts and his Federalist Society supermajority have wrought.” —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains
“A captivating cri de coeur from an up-close spectator to U.S. democracy’s downward spiral.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
“A well-researched, cogently analyzed, and eye-opening chronicle of Roberts and his seemingly compromised Supreme Court.” —Booklist (starred)
“A vigorous takedown of the chief justice of the United States.”—Kirkus
learn the real story of how john roberts has undermined our freedoms
In the last twenty years, with Chief Justice John Roberts at the helm, the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, blessed grossly unfair voting maps, restricted gun regulation, and obliterated the constitutional right to control reproductive choices.
This transformation was orchestrated by a billionaire-backed reactionary political movement, whose interests Chief Justice Roberts has been all too willing to serve—he even maneuvered to give Donald Trump counter-constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution for his so-called “official acts,” paving the way for Trump to return to power. Roberts has emboldened Trump to act like a king in defiance of the Constitution’s checks and balances.
Informed by Lisa Graves’s experience working on judicial issues for all three branches of the federal government, and based on years of intensive research, Without Precedent not only exposes Roberts as the reactionary politician in robes he has always been but also delivers a vigorous plan of judicial reform designed to overcome the divisive, discriminatory, destructive, and anti-democratic machinations of the Roberts court.
This book is a provocative firsthand account that explodes the falsehood that Roberts is a fair-minded institutionalist who works to blunt the worst impulses of other Republican appointees to the court when, in fact, he has led the regressive transformation of the court’s jurisprudence while presiding over the most corrupt and corrupted Supreme Court in American history.
