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

By: Publication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2022.Description: xviii, 350 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0525561382
  • 9780525561385
Other title:
  • Women, the law, and the battle to save America
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.73/0234 23/eng/20220801
LOC classification:
  • KF9415 .L58 2022
Contents:
The beginning -- The first no: Sally Yates : the government lawyer -- The airport revolution: Becca Heller : the activist -- Charlottesville Nazis: Robbie Kaplan -- Abortion at the border: Brigitte Amiri : the litigator -- The organizer: Vanita Gupta : the insider-outsider -- #MeToo: the Kozinski accusers -- #HerToo: Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill -- Voting Georgia 2018: Stacey Abrams : the game changer -- The elections long game : redistricting and the census: Nina Perales : the Latino vote strategist.
Summary: "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." --book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (page 287-337) and index.

The beginning -- The first no: Sally Yates : the government lawyer -- The airport revolution: Becca Heller : the activist -- Charlottesville Nazis: Robbie Kaplan -- Abortion at the border: Brigitte Amiri : the litigator -- The organizer: Vanita Gupta : the insider-outsider -- #MeToo: the Kozinski accusers -- #HerToo: Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill -- Voting Georgia 2018: Stacey Abrams : the game changer -- The elections long game : redistricting and the census: Nina Perales : the Latino vote strategist.

"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." --book jacket.

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