One of the nation’s foremost legal commentators tells the story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won.
Whip-smart and wickedly acerbic, Lithwick shines a reassuring light on the essential interconnectivity between women and the law and champions the vital role women lawyers must continue to play if American democracy is to persevere.
Between starry-eyed opening and grim conclusion, [Lithwick] profiles women lawyers whose stories provide a contextualizing capsule tour of the era and offer some bracing hope ... Though the text is necessarily bristling with names of court cases, Lithwick’s writing is friendly to lay readers and marked by her trademark pithy wit and an endearing faith in the promise of the legal system ... Required reading for this post-Dobbs world.
