Jeffrey Toobin The Nine Summary

In The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the halls of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court. He reveals about the nine people who decided the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a important point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. He did interviews with the justices and discusses about the Court’s history and of its future.
Toobin throughout the book gives examples so that the readers could understand the outcome of the reading. Toobin tells the story of the Court in a non-linear fashion jumping around in time to focus on one justice or case. He details the life story of the justices.One example