March 12 Federal Policy Dinner:
Carrie Severino
Chief Counsel, Judicial Crisis Network
Co-Author,
Justice on Trial:
The Kavanaugh Nomination and the Future of the
Supreme Court

The judicial confirmation process, on the point of breakdown for thirty years, proved itself utterly dysfunctional in the noination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.   Unverified accusations of sexual assault became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction, culminating in the melodramatic hearings in which Kavanaugh's impassioned defense resuscitated a nomination that seemed beyond saving.

Justice on Trial is the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court and is based on extraordinary access to more than one hundred key figures -- including the president, justices, and senators.  It is also a commentary on the future of the US Supreme Court, and what Americans can expect in a second Trump Administration.

Carrie Campbell Severino is the President of the Judicial Crisis Network. and co-author with Mollie Hemingway of the bestselling book Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Court. As an expert on the confirmation process, Mrs. Severino has been extensively quoted in the media and regularly appears on television, including MSNBC, FOX, CNN, C-SPAN and ABC’s This Week. During the Kavanaugh confirmation alone she logged 104 TV appearances, in addition to doing extensive radio and print media.

Severino writes and speaks on a wide range of judicial issues, including the constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process, and state judicial selection. She has testified before Congress on constitutional questions and briefed Senators on judicial nominations, and regularly files briefs in high-profile Supreme Court cases. She was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D.), Duke University (B.A., Biology), and Michigan State University (M.A., Linguistics).

If you want the real story of the Kavanaugh nomination ... and what is to come ..., you won’t want to miss this dinner!  Dinner is only $55, and copies of Justice on Trial will be available for purchase and inscription.