Supreme Courtship is Christopher Buckley at his witty, laugh-out-loud best. The hilarious tale involves a president, frustrated that his two previous Supreme Court nominees were rejected by a petty senator for venal reasons, nominates the popular TV judge star of a Judge Judy-type show.

The characters' personalities are vivid, and readers will have fum deciphering which real DC or pop culture characters are being spoofed. Buckley has a spare, short-chapter, heavy dialogue pacing style that keeps things moving. The combination of his wit, as well as his insider knowledge of his subject, makes plot twists that would seem too forced in weaker hands, appear as if they they could really happen. Examples are a distraught chief justice whose wife leaves him for another woman after he casts the deciding vote for gay marriage, a reality TV producer with hit shows that involve secret cameras, bridge suicides and the morbidly obese, and a senator who takes a '24'-type TV role just so he can make believe he is president of the U.S.

If you love Buckley or haven't tried him, buy the book. It's a gem.