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Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest

Dahlia Lithwick one of the nations foremost legal commentators tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism sexism and xenophobia of Donald Trumps presidencyand won

In the immediate aftershocks of Donald Trumps victory over Hilary Clinton in 2016 women lawyers across the country independently of one another sprang into action They were determined not to stand by while the Republican party did everything in their power to pursue devastating and often retrograde policies

InLady Justice Dahlia Lithwick one of the nations foremost legal commentators illuminates these many heroes of the Trump years From Sally Yates and Becca Heller who fought the Muslim travel ban to Roberta Kaplan who sued the neoNazis in Charlottesville to Stacey Abrams who worked to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail the women lawyers who worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic presidency in living memory

A celebration of the legal ingenuity and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the timeLady Justiceis destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come