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. 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 Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (2008) 305 pages (3 out of 5) This is the set-up in Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley‘s satirical treatment of the U.S. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. May be incomplete or contain other coding. Christopher Buckleys bitingly funny novel Supreme Courtship, a thinly veiled satire about a wildly unpopular American president who in an act of vengeance against an uncooperative Senate. Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2008007788 Publisher description for Supreme courtship / Christopher Buckley.īibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. 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. Christopher Buckley was born in New York City in 1952.
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 Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six.
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The hilarious tale involves a president, frustrated that his two previous Supreme Court nominees were rejected by a petty senator for venal reasons, nominates the popular TV judge star of a Judge Judy-type show. Supreme Courtship is a 2008 novel by Christopher Buckley, which tells the story of a Judge Judy -style TV judge nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Courtship is Christopher Buckley at his witty, laugh-out-loud best.