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050	0	0	_aKF8742 _b.B735 2024
082	0	0	_a347.73/26 _223
100	1		_aBrock, David, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStench : _bthe making of the Thomas Court and the unmaking of America / _cDavid Brock.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2024.
300			_axxvii, 347 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-331) and index.
510	4		_aKirkus Reviews, _cSeptember 01, 2024
520			_a"Public confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to new lows in the last few years - and for good reason. In the past three decades, six conservative justices have gained a supermajority through questionable means: a dubious intervention in a presidential election, perjury during Senate testimony, and a GOP Senate Leader's unethical blockade of a Supreme Court nomination. Armed with an insider's perspective from his time within the conservative movement, David Brock reveals how the efforts to stack the court in service of extreme right-wing interests stem from a decades-long strategy to weaponize our judicial system into an extension of the Republican party itself. Stench investigates the ethics scandals that surround Clarence Thomas and his wife, the rightwing activist Ginni Thomas, culling new material from Thomas' accusers, along with original reporting and Brock's first-hand knowledge of the inner workings of the GOP. Stench is a staggering expose, one that only Brock could write-exhaustive in its research and revelatory in its access to the world of what has effectively become the Thomas Court"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aThomas, Clarence, _d1948-
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bSupreme Court.
610	2	0	_aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
610	2	0	_aOpus Dei (Society)
650		0	_aPolitical questions and judicial power _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolitical corruption _zUnited States.
650		0	_aJudges _xSelection and appointment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aConservatives _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSecret societies _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church.
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