Confirmation Bias, Carl Hulse
Confirmation Bias, Carl Hulse
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Confirmation Bias
Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh

Author: Carl Hulse

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/25/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia’s death—using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible dysfunction across all three branches in the nation’s capital.

The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow over the Supreme Court for three decades. His unexpected death in February 2016 created a vacancy that precipitated a pitched political fight. That battle would not only change the tilt of the court, but the course of American history. It would help decide a presidential election, fundamentally alter longstanding protocols of the United States Senate, and transform the Supreme Court—which has long held itself as a neutral arbiter above politics—into another branch of the federal government riven by partisanship. In an unprecedented move, the Republican-controlled Senate, led by majority leader, Mitch McConnell, refused to give Democratic President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, a confirmation hearing. Not one Republican in the Senate would meet with him. Scalia’s seat would be held open until Donald Trump’s nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch, was confirmed in April 2017.Carl Hulse has spent more than thirty years covering the machinations of the beltway. In Confirmation Bias he tells the story of this history-making battle to control the Supreme Court through exclusive interviews with McConnell, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and other top officials, Trump campaign operatives, court activists, and legal scholars, as well as never-before-reported details and developments. Richly textured and deeply informative, Confirmation Bias provides much-needed context, revisiting the judicial wars of the past two decades to show how those conflicts have led to our current polarization. He examines the politicization of the federal bench and the implications for public confidence in the courts, and takes us behind the scenes to explore how many long-held democratic norms and entrenched, bipartisan procedures have been erased across all three branches of government.

About Carl Hulse

Carl Hulse is chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and a veteran of more than three decades of reporting in the capital. He has also served as the Washington editor of The Times as well as the chief congressional correspondent. Carl is a native of Illinois and a graduate of Illinois State University. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

This book outlines how the Republicans systematically set out to take over the judiciary. They did this with great discipline. According to Hulse this started in 2008. The book is well written and researched. The author also interviewed numerous people as part of his research. Hulse attempts at stayi......more

Goodreads review by Shane

Fascinating, frightening, and a warning that unfortunately few will head. I saw Carl Hulse speak at the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Austin, TX about this book. As he himself says, Mitch McConnell praises this book and somehow fails to see it as the stinging rebuke of how po......more

Goodreads review by HR-ML

Kindle edition. I gave this 3.5 stars. US Senate was charged with, among other responsibilities, "advice and consent" on federal judges, federal appeals judges and those on the Supreme Court (hereafter SCOTUS). They voted to confirm federal judges. Before they needed a vote of 60 (100 Senators total......more