Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America [J0417]

2023 PB in nice clean condition. 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. In the immediate aftershocks of Donald Trump's victory over Hilary Clinton in 2016, women lawyers across the country, independently of one another, sprang into action. They were determined not to stand by while the Republican party did everything in their power to pursue devastating and often retrograde policies. In Lady Justice, Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, illuminates these many heroes of the Trump years. From Sally Yates and Becca Heller, who fought the Muslim travel ban, to Roberta Kaplan, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, to Stacey Abrams, who worked to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians, Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail the women lawyers who worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic presidency in living memory. A celebration of the 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.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Powerful reminder of how the judicial system can still be used to protect our democracy. Made me a little more hopeful."; "This was a fabulous chronicle of women lawyers fighting the fight in the last decade. Very inspirational. While every story was well documented at the time, Dahlia Lithwick added meaningful insight and details."; "A beautiful, heart wrenching, and inspiring collection of reminders as to why fighting for what's right in times when everything is going wrong is so important."