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Bonnie G. is on page 77 of 416

There is a lot of inside baseball for the Scotus obsessed (that includes me), but also a lot to interest nonlawyers. Isgur makes a complicated subject easily accessible for most everyone without dumbing down. I think she creates some false equivalencies with respect to the impact of judicial philosophies and actions from different justices and the stats of different terms, but mostly, this is reasonably even-handed

— Apr 30, 2026 07:10AM

Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court

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Bonnie G. is on page 321 of 416

There is some smart stuff here, but Isgur states things as fact that are (at best) opinion way too frequently.

— May 09, 2026 09:02PM

Bonnie G. is on page 275 of 416

— May 07, 2026 09:51AM

Bonnie G. is on page 167 of 416

Isgur is smarter and more knowledgeable than I. I respect the hell out of her. But there is so much spin here, I'm feeling nauseated.

— May 03, 2026 05:26PM

Bonnie G. is on page 104 of 416

Isgur starts well, but when she gets into the meat, she reveals a fangirl apologist for the conservative wing of the court. She says pundits now see Thomas as the intellectual leader of the right. That is both hilarious and (if true) damns the intellectual heft of that group. She attacks Christine Blassey Ford, and states that women should not speak out about sexual assault if they did not do so contemporaneously.

— May 01, 2026 08:06PM