The Nine

CONTENTS Title Page Dedication Prologue: The Steps PART ONE 1. The Federalist War of Ideas 2. Good versus Evil 3. Questions Presented 4. Collision Course 5. Big Heart 6. Exiles Return? 7. What Shall Be Orthodox 8. Writing Separately 9. Cards to the Left 10. The Year of the Rout PART TWO 11. To the Brink 12. Over the Brink 13. Perfectly Clear PART THREE 14. “A Particular Sexual Act” Photo Insert 15. “A Law-Profession Culture” 16. Before Speaking, Saying Something 17. The Green Brief 18. “Our Executive Doesn’t” 19. “A Great Privilege, Indeed” PART FOUR 20. “ ‘G’ Is for God” 21. Retiring the Trophy 22. “I Know Her Heart” 23. Dinner at the Just Desserts Café 24. “I Am and Always Have Been…” 25. Phanatics? Epilogue: The Steps—Closed Afterword to the Anchor Edition Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Photo Credits About the Author Also by Jeffrey Toobin Praise for Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine Copyright To Adam PROLOGUE THE STEPS The architect Cass Gilbert had grand ambitions for his design of a new home for the Supreme Court—what he called “the greatest tribunal in the world, one of the three great elements ......