And Latina bombshell Ramona Alvilar represented a very nasty and hackneyed stereotype. The romantic angle of the novel was weak – so weak it made me squirm a bit. Unfortunately, not all of the book hangs together that well. I actually hope Buckley gets back to Santamaria in another book – the character deserved more time! First-timers appearing before the Court for oral argument had been known to wet their pants and even faint under his withering questions and commentary (p. Didn’t nitpick-disemboweled you and flossed his teeth with your intestines. Silvio Santamaria didn’t take yes for an answer. He was brilliant, with a wit as caustic as drain cleaner good company if you were in his camp and look out if you weren’t. And Silvio Santamaria, clearly a send-up of the most despicable justice with whom I share an alma mater – Antonin Scalia – is a brilliant tribute to excess: There’s one exchange among justices made up almost entirely of Latin legalese that had me laughing out loud in the library. There’s something here for everyone, especially news junkies.
#Buckley supreme courtship tv
Throwing caution to the wind for once, he nominates TV judge Pepper Cartwright, a wisecracking, gun-toting, Prada-wearing Texas icon to the Court.*** Along with the arcane nature of Constitutional law, Buckley also expounds on reality TV, populism, and the nature of marriage.
President Vanderkamp, a terribly earnest and therefore thoroughly disliked Ohioan, becomes miffed when two of the finest jurists of the age are turned down for a seat on the Supreme Court because Dexter Miller, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants the job himself.
And maybe that’s all you can expect from political satire. the US Supreme Court – seem hilarious! Well, at least hilarious some of the time.
Christopher Buckley, ultimate Washington insider,* really understands life “inside the beltway.”** Which is why he manages to make “nine old farts sending footnotes to each other” –a.k.a. You have to really understand a culture to crystallize the humor in it. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.Humor is about the hardest thing to translate. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? 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. 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 nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court. In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.
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