A review by lifepluspreston
Murder the Truth: Threats, Intimidation, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by David Enrich

4.0

Murder the Truth by David Enrich--This is a very different Enrich book. Enrich has previously followed financial trails and open records in pursuit of information on scammers, lawyers, banks, and more. This book, instead tracks the ongoing efforts to attack the first amendment. There's a whole lot of legal issues at stake here, and Enrich does yeoman's work in making this analysis accessible to the layperson while still getting at the core principles. I appreciated in particular his connecting the dots across multiple cases; he points out the ouroboros of cases where a Supreme Court justice references a lower court in his dissent while that lower court judge references the SC justice in future cases, creating a miasma of confusion around precedent and settled law for future courts to consider. It's an urgent book, released at an urgent moment. Thumbs up.