Book Review
Is the Justice System Being Hijacked?

Vol. 35, No. 16

August 19, 2019

Is the Justice System Being Hijacked?

The authors of Justice on Trial explain how accusations made against Brett Kavanaugh as he went through the confirmation process are just par for the course in leftist political strategy. ...

Steve Byas

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2019, 315 pages, hardcover.

Alexander Hamilton predicted that the Supreme Court would be “the least dangerous branch,” but as authors Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino lament, “The judiciary has become the forum where philosopher kings impose the final decision in our most divisive political and social disputes.”

While, as the title implies, the book centers on the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the authors place that titanic struggle in the context of how the federal judiciary has emerged as the way for the American Left to impose its philosophy on the country when they cannot win at the ballot box. 

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