On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series, The Authoritarian Playbook, with Lisa Graves, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the right-wing influence on the US Supreme Court and other levers of power.
In her new book, Without Precedent : How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights , she writes: "This book explains how John Roberts ascended to the Supreme Court and for nearly two decades maintained a reputation as a fair referee despite using the Court to advance a reactionary political revolution in the law to undo widely popular policies. It details the network of billionaire- funded groups engaged in a radical crusade to remake American society through the courts and shows how Roberts is both a cause and a conse