The Supermajority

“A damning account of a Supreme Court gone wildly activist in shredding the Constitution.”– “Kirkus Reviews”“Each week’s headlines reveal how much power the Supreme Court holds over all our lives. Abortion… guns…the environment…our democracy - The Supermajority dramatizes the explosive impact of these nine justices. It shows how politics shapes the Court, and how the Court shapes the country. It’s a revelatory look at America’s history, an incisive reflection on our future. Essential reading to understand today’s politics.”–George Stephanopoulos“Learned, engaging, fierce - I expect [The Supermajority] to exert huge influence in Democratic Senate and presidential debate about the stakes in 2024 and after.”–David Frum, @davidfrum, 5/22/23“Michael Waldman’s The Supermajority is nothing less than a public service. With writerly skill and lawyerly authority he has produced a panoramically sweeping and deeply disturbing account of the Supreme Court’s lurch to the hard right. Anyone trying to grasp how just nine unelected justices with lifetime tenure could completely upend American life must read this important book.”–Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker “Waldman’s book devastatingly demonstrates that … the current Court has made clear that even the judiciary’s legitimacy as the law’s highest expositor cannot be presumed.”–Laurence Tribe “The New York Review of Books”

Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to revitalize the nation’s systems of democracy and justice. He was director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999 and is the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography and The Fight to Vote. Waldman was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law, he comments widely in the media on law and policy.