Damon Root

Damon Root is an award-winning legal affairs journalist. He is the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (2020) and Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court (2014). His writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsweek, New York Daily News, New York Press, Globe and Mail, and other publications. His work has been cited by the Texas Supreme Court and in the writings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.