The Oath: The Obama White Home and The Supreme Courtroom

A Washington Publish Notable Work of Nonfiction

From the second Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama’s oath of workplace, the connection between the Courtroom and the White Home has been a fraught one. Grappling with points as numerous as marketing campaign finance, abortion, and the correct to bear arms, the Roberts court docket has put itself squarely on the middle of American political life. Jeffrey Toobin brilliantly portrays key personalities and instances and reveals how the President was fatally sluggish to understand the significance of the judicial department to his agenda. Combining incisive authorized evaluation with riveting insider: The Oath is an important information to understanding the Supreme Courtroom of our attention-grabbing occasions.