| There are many ways to tell the story of the fall of the Supreme Court, which in recent years has tumbled precipitously from its position as one of the most esteemed and trusted institutions in this country. Was it the Federalist Society capturing the Republican Party and creating a pipeline of right-wing judges? Was it Samuel Alito taking a $100,000 ride on a hedge-fund billionaire’s private plane to fish for salmon in Alaska? Or was it the court itself, which last summer, among other ruinous decisions, broke decades of precedent to overturn a woman’s right to an abortion? What New York‘s Kerry Howley posits in this extraordinary retelling of the marriage of Clarence and Virginia Thomas, is that, yes, these factors all had a role, but other, less examined motivations have also been at play: jealousy and paranoia, loneliness and suffering, all of the secrets of the human heart. |
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