Lady justice: women, the law, and the battle to save America

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Lithwick, Dahlia (Lawyer)

Lithwick, Dahlia

Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wendell Community

Adult Non-Fiction

Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Wendell Community - Adult Non-Fiction

"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"--

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Wake County Public Libraries

Eva H. Perry Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wendell Community

9780525561385

2022

Penguin Press

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Contempt of court -- United States
Discrimination in justice administration -- United States
Justice, Administration of -- United States -- Criminal provisions
Obstruction of justice -- United States
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
Trump, Donald, -- 1946-
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021

Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America

Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America / Dahlia Lithwick

Lady justice

women, the law, and the battle to save America

Contempt of court
Criminal provisions
Discrimination in justice administration
Election
Justice, Administration of
Obstruction of justice
Politics and government
Presidents
Trump, Donald