New Book from Cato Institute Scholar Ilya Shapiro: Supreme Disorder

Read the new book Supreme Disorder by Ilya Shapiro, available nationwide. [View in browser]( [cato bookstore] [Supreme-Disorder-Cover]( "An indispensable resource for understanding our constitutional history and how we got to where we are with judicial nominations. Anyone with any interest in constitutional law needs to read this book. I will be recommending it to my students." —Randy E. Barnett, professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and author of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People "In this engaging and insightful history of the pitched battles over Supreme Court nominations since America's early days, Ilya Shapiro shows how the confirmation process went awry—and why only the Court itself, by checkign the other branches and issuing rulings that will be perceived as legitimate, can fix it." —Adam Winkler, law professor, UCLA, and member of the board of directors of the American Constitution Society and the Brennan Center for Justice [NOW ON SALE NATIONWIDE]( The brutal confirmation battles we saw over Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are symptoms of a larger problem with our third branch of government, a problem that began long before Kavanaugh, Merrick Garland, Clarence Thomas, or even Robert Bork: the courts’ own self-corruption, aiding and abetting the expansion of federal power. In Supreme Disorder, [Ilya Shapiro](, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, takes readers inside the unknown history of fiercely partisan judicial nominations and explores reform proposals that could return the Supreme Court to its proper constitutional role. Confirmation battles over justices will only become more toxic and unhinged as long as the Court continues to ratify the excesses of the other two branches of government and the parties that control them. Only when the Court begins to rebalance constitutional order, curb administrative overreach, and return power back to the states will the bitter partisan war to control the judiciary finally end. Supreme Disorder was the subject of a book forum held on September 21, 2020 by the Cato Institute. Catch a sneak peak of the book and engage with the author, Randy Barnett, Carrie Severino, and Jan Crawford as they discuss Ilya Shapiro's new work on the Supreme Court of the United States. [Capture]( [WATCH THE EVENT NOW]( [SUPPORT CATO]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 842-0200 [Manage preferences](