Queer Justice

by Alex Charns

Decades before Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sexually blackmailed sitting Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas into serving as his informant on the High Court. Queer Justice is a novel inspired by this true story of corruption, intrigue, and vicious anti-gay bigotry of the 1960s. A father and son team of attorneys solves the mystery. Alex Charns is an attorney and author of "Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis," "FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court" "A riveting, damning indictment of the FBI's illegal activities . . . and the downfall of a Supreme Court justice." Kirkus Reviews. "Cloak and Gavel. FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers, and the Supreme Court" (Univ. of Illinois 1992). "The FBI's scandalous techniques ranged from illegal wiretapping to disinformation campaigns, to using Justice Abe Fortas as a Bureau informant." Harvard Law Review.