Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America / Dahlia Lithwick.
2022
KF9415 .L58 2022
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Title
Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America / Dahlia Lithwick.
ISBN
0525561390 electronic book
9780525561392 (electronic bk.)
9780525561385 hardcover
9780525561392 (electronic bk.)
9780525561385 hardcover
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages)
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KF9415 .L58 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.73/0234
Summary
"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done? Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren't going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020. These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time, Lady Justice is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The beginning
The first no / Sally Yates : the government lawyer
The airport revolution / Becca Heller : the activist
Charlottesville Nazis / Robbie Kaplan
Abortion at the border / Brigitte Amiri : the litigator
The civil rights lawyer / Vanita Gupta
#MeToo / the Kozinski accusers
#HerToo / Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill
Voting Georgia 2018 / Stacey Abrams : the game changer
The elections long game : redistricting and the census / Nina Perales : the Latino vote strategist.
The first no / Sally Yates : the government lawyer
The airport revolution / Becca Heller : the activist
Charlottesville Nazis / Robbie Kaplan
Abortion at the border / Brigitte Amiri : the litigator
The civil rights lawyer / Vanita Gupta
#MeToo / the Kozinski accusers
#HerToo / Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill
Voting Georgia 2018 / Stacey Abrams : the game changer
The elections long game : redistricting and the census / Nina Perales : the Latino vote strategist.