The Scheme

<p><strong>A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court</strong><br><br> <strong>“There's no senator I can think of who’s done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics particularly as it affects the courts.”-Jane Mayer author of the national bestseller <em>Dark Money</em></strong> <br><br><span>As the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news the paperback version of </span><i>The Scheme</i><span> comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.<br></span><span><br>Following his book Captured 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 “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. Whitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups helped by the infamous </span><i>Citizens United</i><span> 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.<br></span><span><br>Now 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 </span><i>The Scheme</i><span> offers what </span><i>Kirkus Reviews</i><span> calls “a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.”</span><br></p>