Takeover

How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court

By: Noah Feldman, Lidia Jean Kott

Narrated by: Noah Feldman

Six of the nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court are current or former members of The Federalist Society - a private, conservative legal organization which has grown to dominate modern American jurisprudence.

Takeover tells the story of how The Federalist Society started as a student club and grew to become the most influential legal organization in US history. Over the last three decades, they managed to shape judicial policy and secure numerous seats for its members on courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. Now at the height of its prominence, the organization faces new challenges and internal divisions threaten to splinter the group as its members debate the core founding principles of the Federalist Society. Author and narrator Noah Feldman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, host of the Deep Background podcast, and author of several books including The Arab Winter and The Three Lives of James Madison, provides special insight and access into this organization. He takes listeners into the offices and chambers of the people who know the Federalist Society best and illuminates how the group came to power, the challenges it faces, and its future which should matter to everyone.

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the brilliant Noah Feldman!

a must listen for all centrists, and progressives! really any and all americans who should care about how we can be empowered, or disenfranchised by the highest court in the land.

A must to read for every American!

At a selling price of under $8, you will get 3-times the worth of your money. a quick lesson explaining "THE SUPREME COURT OF UNITED STATES".

Outstanding

Feldman takes a complex piece of history and judiciary politics and makes it accessible and gripping without being reductive. Excellent piece of writing.

Well worth your while

This is a skillfully produced and consistently interesting account of how conservatives transformed the American judiciary. The interviews added outstanding texture and Feldman’s analysis was valuable throughout. While Feldman doesn’t hide his disagreement with FedSoc’s principles and aims, he’s admirably careful to give FedSoc a proper hearing. I recommend pairing this with Feldman’s February 2021 Deep Background interview with FedSoc CEO Eugene Meyer,

A concise history

This was such a good listen/read! Great summaries of the Federalist Society and the ACA, the Federalist Society and the 2016 election of Donald Trump, and many other events shaping the current political and judicial context. It deserves a re-listen.

Noah Feldman has an engaging style, nice use of music in the production. Lots of original, raw audio from essential events and interviews. I hope others adopt this style of audiobook.