No, not baseball. It’s the title of Jeffrey Toobin’s new book: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
David Margolick has the review in The New York Times. His summary:
So, not surprisingly, “The Nine” is engaging, erudite, candid and accessible, often hard to put down. Toobin is a natural storyteller, and the stories he tells — how a coalition of centrist justices saved Roe v. Wade; why Rehnquist, despite having loathed the rights granted to criminal suspects by Miranda v. Arizona, eventually declined to overturn the decision; how right-wing firebrands deep-sixed the Supreme Court candidacies of Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers — are gripping. But its greatest surprise is that there are few great surprises. Toobin writes about the court more fluidly and fluently than anyone, but his buddies on the bench didn’t tell him much we don’t already know.
Here’s the “first chapter” of The Nine.
Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick review the reviewers of Toobin’s book.