A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Kirkus Reviews with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court amp8220Theres no senator I can think of whoamp8217s done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics particularly as it affects the courts.amp8221Jane Mayer author of the national bestseller Dark MoneyAs the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes frontpage news the paperback version of The Scheme comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies and his years of experience as a prosecutor Senator Sheldon Whitehouse whom Senator Elizabeth Warren calls a amp8220a powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless pervasiveamp8212and often hiddenamp8212power of corporate special interestsamp8221 here turns his attention to the rightwing scheme to capture the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse chronicles a hiddenmoney campaign using an armada of front groups helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision employing the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile and with the same small handful of rightwing billionaires and corporations enticing the Senate to break rules norms and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance their antigovernment agenda.Now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomasamp8217s recently disclosed conflicts of interest The Scheme offers what Kirkus Reviews calls amp8220a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.amp8221