The League of Women Voters Portland Area (LWVPA) Book Club is organized as a nonpartisan vehicle with a mission to provide education and promote civil discourse to all who wish to learn more about democracy.

You are invited to join us to discuss Without Precedent by Lisa Graves.

Registration is required. You may attend in person at the library or online via Zoom.

Registration link coming soon!   

Offered in partnership with the the League of Women Voters and the Falmouth Memorial Library.

About the Book

In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control one’s reproductive choices. This transformation was orchestrated by a billionaire-backed reactionary political movement, whose interests Chief Justice John Roberts has been all too willing to serve.

Without Precedent explodes the falsehood that Roberts is a fair-minded institutionalist who works to blunt the worst impulses of other Republican appointees to the court when, in fact, he has led the rightward transformation of the court’s jurisprudence while presiding over the most corrupt and corrupted Supreme Court in American history.

Informed by Lisa Graves’s experience working on judicial issues for all three branches of the federal government, and based on years of intensive research, Without Precedent not only exposes Roberts as the reactionary politician in robes he has always been but delivers a vigorous plan of judicial reform designed to overcome the divisive, discriminatory, destructive, and anti-democratic machinations of the Roberts court.