OBJECTION!

Following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with the presidential election weeks away, Donald Trump had the opportunity to place a new justice on the Supreme Court. Attempting to stabilize his eroding support among white evangelicals, he handed over the selection of the nominee to a small group of evangelical leaders. In doing so, he breached the religious test clause of the Constitution. A chief authority on the religious test clause, and one whose interpretation of that clause requires a finding that Trump's actions violated the Constitution, is none other than Amy Coney Barrett.

This concise, vital book explores the origins and importance of the test clause and makes the argument that an injunction to prevent Barrett from taking office or serving on the Court should be issued straightaway, while the courts, and the nation, resolve a critical constitutional issue.

Michael Rips clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and Judge Henry Politz of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; he writes and lectures on constitutional law and has practiced constitutional appellate litigation, including landmark cases before the Supreme Court. He is the author of three volumes of memoir: The Golden Flea, The Face of a Naked Lady and Pasquale's Nose