New York Times Editor's Choice Biskupic an accomplished and well-sourced journalist knows the
court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something
different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close
accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas
and conflicts... The deeper message of 'Nine Black Robes' is that even with a new president in
office we remain captive to the Age of Trump... A quiet urgency ripples through this
informative briskly paced and gracefully written book. -New York Times Book Review Biskupic
opens a window onto the opaque insular world of the justices to show an institution sinking
gradually into crisis . . . Biskupic is a longtime chronicler of the court and Nine Black
Robes puts on display her connections within its chambers. -Washington Post [Biskupic] knows
how to make news and illuminate the personalities atop the judicial org chart . . . The book
reveals unseen sausage-making . . . -Wall Street Journal Fascinating and informative . . .
[Biskupic's] long experience covering the court . . . has put her in an incomparable position
to comment on its make-up historical positions and direction. It has also made her privy to
many significant little-known secrets about Supreme Court personalities and their historical
behaviors. -The National Book Review CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an
urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and
post-Trump years from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions including
its reversal of Roe v. Wade based on access to all the key players. Nine Black Robes displays
the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe
v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped
away or alternatively as in the case of gun owners how rights are expanded. Today's
bench-with its conservative majority-is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed
rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years but the Trump appointments hastened the
modern transformation. With unparalleled access to key players Biskupic shows the tactics of
each justice and reveals switched votes and internal pacts that typically never make the light
of day yet will have repercussions for generations to come. Nine Black Robes is the definitive
narrative of the country's highest court and its profound impact on all Americans.
