Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will publish a book about right-wing donors’ influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, WPRI reports.
The Rhode Island Democrat’s The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, co-written with attorney Jennifer Mueller, will be released this fall via the New Press, the progressive nonprofit publisher that has previously put out books by authors including Howard Zinn and Elie Mystal.
The New Press says the book is something of a follow-up to Whitehouse’s 2017 book Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy. A critic for Kirkus wrote of that book, “The book reads more like a Democrat’s attack on Republicans, but many of the ills it illuminates are bipartisan.” 
“Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell’s notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision,” the New Press says on a webpage for the book.
Whitehouse has been a critic of the Supreme Court’s recent rightward turn, which was brought into sharp relief last month with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Whitehouse slammed the decision as “one of the most smug, arrogant, and untethered decisions in the Court’s history.”
The Scheme is slated for publication on Oct. 18.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
