The Scheme

Praise for The Scheme:“Chapter and verse on how the U.S. Supreme Court was ‘captured.’”—The Boston Globe“An alarming … account of efforts to install conservative judges on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary… . Whitehouse gathers copious evidence and strikes a fiery tone.”—Publishers Weekly“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”—Kirkus Review”“A harrowing account of how right-wing billionaires and business interests have worked to capture the American judiciary—all the way up to the Supreme Court—to create an American plutocracy. Anyone who cares about the future of American democracy—indeed, the future of America, writ large—needs to read this book.”—Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science, Harvard University, and author of Merchants of Doubt

Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate. He has served as his state’s United States Attorney and as the state Attorney General, as well as its top business regulator. The author of Captured and The Scheme (both from The New Press), he lives in Newport, Rhode Island.