I found this to be a fascinating look into the individual nature of the justices and how their background, personalities, public and public opinion influence their decisions. This book is about the Supreme Court Justices - not the law. No one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices. He is a best-selling author, a CNN senior legal analyst, and New Yorker staff writer. The Nine is the book Toobin was born to write. Bush, the president she helped place in office.

Gore - and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful breach with George W.

There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Just in time for the 2008 presidential election - where the future of the Court will be at stake - Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.īased on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities - from Anthony Kennedy’s overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas’s well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter’s odd 19th century lifestyle. Best-selling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.

The nine inside the secret world