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Supreme Courtship
Christopher Buckley
Hachette/Twelve, 2008
President
of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time
getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee
is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird,
the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate
won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star
of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six.
Will
Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the
Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin
her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how
will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including
a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns
that his wife has left him for another woman?
Soon, Pepper finds
herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential
reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral
arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another
classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions
most deserving of ridicule.
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