Without Precedent

“Graves writes clearly and with a clear sense of outrage at what the Supreme Court has become under Roberts’s stewardship.”–Times Literary Supplement“A well-researched, cogently analyzed, and eye-opening chronicle of Roberts and his seemingly compromised Supreme Court.”–Booklist (starred)“A captivating cri de coeur from an up-close spectator to U.S. democracy’s downward spiral.”–Publishers Weekly (starred)“No one combines legal expertise and peerless investigative talent like the brilliant and brave Lisa Graves, who proves beyond reasonable doubt that Justice John Roberts has acted as a political animal throughout his career. An eye-popping can’t-put-it-down account, Without Precedent is a must-read for everyone who knows something has gone terribly wrong with the U.S. Supreme Court yet doesn’t understand why. I had to remind myself to breathe while reading this tour de force about the near ruin of our country that Roberts and his Federalist Society supermajority have wrought.”–Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts’s Supreme Court by a Washington insider, progressive activist, and eyewitness to Roberts’ rise to power. As a top Democratic lawyer to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lisa Graves was ‘in the room where it happened, ’ for many of the most hard-fought battles over America’s highest court. Now she tells the inside story. Anyone concerned about justice in America should read it.”–Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker Magazine“A vigorous takedown of the chief justice of the United States.”–Kirkus“Lisa Graves is a dazzlingly brilliant sleuth of the dark-money apparatus that has corrupted the Supreme Court. Graves’ Without Precedent reveals how Chief Justice Roberts and the other right-wing justices mangled the Constitution in service to a group of shadowy billionaire extremists.”–Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator, Rhode Island

Lisa Graves is one of the nation’s foremost experts on right-wing influence on the federal courts. She helps lead Court Accountability and True North Research. She has served as a senior adviser in all three branches of the federal government, including as the chief counsel for nominations for the US Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Patrick Leahy. She resides in Superior, Wisconsin.