Battle For The Marble Palace: Michael Bobelian with Alicia Bannon

The highest court in the land has long been a tug of war between left and right. Back in 1969, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Abe Fortas to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren. Instead of a routine confirmation that would help cement LBJ’s legacy, it ignited a war between liberals and conservatives eager to seize control of the judicial body.​ In Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court Michael Bobelian provides a timely portrayal of the clash in this seminal moment in Court history, detailing the Machiavellian maneuvers to secure ideologically driven justices for a coming generation.​

Michael Bobelian, former research scholar at The New York Public Library, a lawyer covering the Supreme Court , and a contributing writer for Forbes,  will be joined in conversation with Alicia Bannon, the Managing Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.