Advise & Dissent

Selecting Supreme Court justices

Government's least-understood "Third Branch" has a huge impact on our lives--from abortion to affirmative action, education to the environment, privacy to police action. But in recent years the way we select Supreme Court justices has become dangerously politicized, threatening judicial impartiality.

ADVISE & DISSENT is the first documentary to go behind the lines and into the trenches of the judicial confirmation wars. The film tracks two opposing lobbyists and two lions of the Senate through several recent nominations, each of which inflames passions and provokes surprising conflicts and shifting alliances.

Both timely and timeless, the film lays bare the collision of politics and justice that is re-shaping America's future.

Winner of the Founders Award at the Politics On Film Festival.

"Brilliant ... Every American should see this film." - Howard Fineman, Newsweek Chief Political Correspondent