the first couple of chapters don’t have much substance and some of the examples became repetitive in later chapters, but Graves did a great job unearthing both the scale of the coordination and the deliberately convoluted mechanisms that went into securing the Court’s current makeup. she spotlighted Roberts in particular throughout the work but also illustrated the moral depravity of the Republican justices as a whole.
the natural progression for a work like this is to show exactly how awful this situation is and then tackle the inevitable “so now what?” and i think it’s funny that she just dropped the link to her website and told us to have hope that things will change. the website is supposed to have in-depth summaries on potential judicial reforms, a list of resources where people can take action, and supplementary reading material, but all of that is coming soon! so i guess we’ll have to pin that for now.
anyway in conclusion f- John Roberts and all of the Republican justices, the bar for the judiciary is on the ground but you all brought shovels.