Senator Mike Lee is one of my favorite political minds and I am extremely grateful for him writing this book (though it seems quite similar to the book put out by Senator Cruz). I can't recommend this book enough.

I would like to thank the publisher for an ARC of this book. I really enjoyed this book. This is a timely book. It was written just before Biden picked a new Supreme Court Justice. A woman who can’t even say what a woman is. If the Democrats are able to get their way, we would have a whole lot more justices like her. It was also written before the leak. If the Democrats have their way, there would probably be more leaks. As a person who has a bachelor's degree in government and wanted to be an attorney, I have real respect for the Supreme Court. I have respect for the Constitution. It makes my heart hurt how the Democrats want to go against the Constitution. I really enjoyed the beginning where Senator Lee told the story about his father arguing in the Supreme Court. It must have been amazing to have the opportunity to be in the Court, growing up. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in the government or anyone who loves and respects the Constitution of the United States of America.

In Saving Nine, Senator Mike Lee, a former law clerk to Justice Alito and often-talked about possible Supreme Court nominee, presents a well-reasoned, historically-based rebuttal to the radical proposition to “pack the Court” to force the Court to rule in accordance with the wishes of one side of the political spectrum, not according to its constitutional duty. Much of the fairly short book considers the history of the High Court from Its beginnings to FDR’s failed plan to “pack the court” in the late 1930’s to the modern-day madness. The history takes the reader through the famous stories of the Court and the major cases that demonstrated changes in the Court’s approach from Marbury through Lochner. Ultimately, Senator Lee concludes that the mad plan of the radicals would strip all legitimacy from the High Court and render it just another political animal held captive to the whims and caprices of the loudest voices. In such an event, none of our rights would be safe because there would be no separate nonpolitical coequal branch of government to act as a check and balance on the other two branches. This is a brilliantly written argument and one that should be read by anyone who comments on this issue.

In Saving Nine, Senator Mike Lee offers a well reasoned and well written rebuttal to the concept of “court packing”. The book starts out with a comprehensive history of the Court itself, and how the number of justices eventually settled at nine (the Constitution never defined how many justices there should be). He also reviews FDR’s court packing threat, and how it probably led to one justice switching his vote on a case, which Senator Lee feels opened the floodgates for the administrative state. He also summarizes the current reasoning on the Left for increasing the number of justices, and most importantly, why it’s been considered a bad idea, even by liberal justices such as RBG.

An excellent book, comprehensive and well done. Kudos to Senator Lee for his cogent reasoning and well written arguments against court packing.

My thanks to .Center Street and also to Netgalley for providing an ARC of this very topical book.