Jean's Reviews > Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Mollie Hemingway is the senior editor at the Federalist. The Federalist is a conservative web magazine and podcast. Carrie Severino is Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network. The JCN is a conservative activist political campaign organization. Severino also was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.

The book is well written and researched. The authors attempted to be neutral in their presentation, but the conservative leaning comes through. I like to study a situation from all view points before I develop an opinion. Accordingly, I have been reading a variety of books including books about the Supreme Court confirmation process. The authors provided a history of the confirmation process to the Supreme Court and then a detailed account of the Kavanaugh hearing. They also spent a chapter discussing originalism vs activism. They did not cover the role of Senator Mitch McConnell in accelerating polarization in the confirmation process. I was already familiar with the majority of the information, but I did discover some new information that had not been previously covered. I found the information about the Supreme Court’s law clerks most interesting.

I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is eleven hours and fifteen minutes. Mollie Hemingway does a good job narrating the book.