![]() No need to guess who is the Supreme Court's feisty new swing vote. When a great many Americans, not least of them President Vanderdamp, begin trying to pave the way for Dexter's presidency, a judicial crisis arises. In a show that resembles The West Wing but comes "without all the hand-wringing," the formerly fatuous Dexter begins looking presidential. The guy might not be electable, but he is telegenic enough for Buddy - Pepper's husband and a TV producer - to want to give Dexter his own show. His rootin'-tootin' Texas TV judge is Pepper Cartwright, the "Oprah of our judicial system." Perhaps she belongs in a political sendup, but she's way too broad for this one.īuckley also creates failed perennial presidential candidate Sen. One night while channel-surfing, he decides to nominate the star of a TV-courtroom reality show as his next Supreme Court contender. For one thing, he would prefer not to serve a second term. Parts of this book would be more amusing if they seemed less true.īut other parts are mercifully far-fetched, particularly the plot angle that melds the Supreme Court with reality television: President Donald Vanderdamp is in an unusual situation vis-a-vis the rest of the government. "Justices look solemn in their formal black robes, but every so often they like to have a little fun by taking on a strange case, or overturning a presidential election, that sort of thing." "Generally, the court accepts only cases that it finds interesting, but sometimes a 'what the hell' element seems to come into play," he writes. Supreme Courtship does, after all, posit a Supreme Court nominee who is rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for having opined, at the age of 12, that parts of the movie To Kill a Mockingbird were "boring." And it offers Buckley ample opportunity to opine about the Supreme Court's recent track record. ![]() This is that rare occasion when a wicked wit takes aim at a humor-squelching comedic target. A funny thing happened to Buckley on his way to the Supreme Courtship: Nothing funny occurred to him. ![]() Christopher Buckley's usual weapon of choice is a rapier, not a blunt instrument.īut he usually writes satirically, while his new book is a broad farce. ![]()
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