The Nine is based on interviews with justices and their law clerks that were given on a not-for-attribution basis - meaning, in plain language, that Toobin heard stories, opinions and analyses directly from the horses' mouths, but isn't allowed to reveal who said what. It's also a behind-the-scenes look at the court, its recent decisions and the personalities of the justices behind them. His book is about how this counterrevolution developed. So says Jeffrey Toobin in his new book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. With the moderating, centrist voice of Sandra Day O'Connor now gone from the Supreme Court, a conservative counterrevolution that had been stymied for 20 years has now begun. Law Supreme Court Term Defined by Close Splits
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