{"product_id":"the-scheme-by-sheldon-whitehouse-9781620977385","title":"The Scheme","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee\" (\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news, the paperback version of \u003cem\u003eThe Scheme\u003c\/em\u003e comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing his book \u003cem\u003eCaptured\u003c\/em\u003e on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, whom Senator Elizabeth Warren calls \"a powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless, pervasive—and often hidden—power of corporate special interests,\" here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the United States Supreme Court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, helped by the infamous \u003cem\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/em\u003e Supreme Court decision, employing the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, and with the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance their anti-government agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomas's recently disclosed conflicts of interest, \u003cem\u003eThe Scheme\u003c\/em\u003e offers what \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e calls \"a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850379972844,"sku":"9781620977385","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3364503482765.jpg?v=1759085861","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-scheme-by-sheldon-whitehouse-9781620977385","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}