Without Precedent
How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights
PublicAffairs · Print & ebook · September 30, 2025
“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control one’s reproductive choices.
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- Who it’s for
- Lisa Graves traces the Roberts Court’s rightward shift and proposes judicial reform.
- Genres
- Courts & the Judiciary, Constitutional Law, Political Commentary
- Published
- PublicAffairs, September 30, 2025
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“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control one’s reproductive choices.
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This transformation was orchestrated by a billionaire-backed reactionary political movement, whose interests Chief Justice John Roberts has been all too willing to serve. Without Precedent explodes the falsehood that Roberts is a fair-minded institutionalist who works to blunt the worst impulses of other Republican appointees to the court when, in fact, he has led the rightward transformation of the court’s jurisprudence while presiding over the most corrupt and corrupted Supreme Court in American history. Informed by Lisa Graves’s experience working on judicial issues for all three branches of the federal government, and based on years of intensive research, Without Precedent not only exposes Roberts as the reactionary politician in robes he has always been but delivers a vigorous plan of judicial reform designed to overcome the divisive, discriminatory, destructive, and anti-democratic machinations of the Roberts court.
The Roberts Court
Lisa Graves traces the Roberts Court’s rightward shift and proposes judicial reform.
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- The court’s treatment of voting rights
- A proposed plan for judicial reform
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- Discussion of gun regulation
- Discussion of reproductive rights
Where it sits
| Courts & the Judiciary | 84% |
|---|---|
| Constitutional Law | 24% |
| Political Commentary | 24% |
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Publisher categories
- Lawyers & Judges
- 21st-Century America
- Federal Government Law
- Courts & the Judiciary
- Authors
- Lisa Graves
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Published
- September 30, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Lawyers & Judges