CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY SUPREME COURTSHIP TV

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CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY SUPREME COURTSHIP TV

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (2008) 305 pages (3 out of 5)Įnter Judge Perdita “Pepper” Cartwright, star of the top-rated reality TV show, Courtroom Six. About all that remains is to find someone who can gain the approval of the Senate for that Supreme Court slot.

All he wants to do is move back home to Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he can go bowling as often as he wishes. In retaliation, the Senate has rejected the two eminently qualified jurists he nominated for an open seat on the Supreme Court. Congress, and politicians of both parties, despise him, because he has vetoed every spending bill that reached his desk. Vanderdamp, has an approval rating barely above twenty. The President of the United States, Donald P. In the book, an Eisenhower type President gets frustrated by the Senate Judiciary Committee for rejecting all of his highly qualified justices. It also pokes excellent fun of the nomination process. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicue.Christopher Buckley’s satire on the U.S. Christopher Buckley's Supreme Courtship is a wonderful parody of the extent to which entertainment and politics have merged. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. more » twright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her - Judge Pepper Car. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court.

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