While Justice Sleeps

While Justice Sleeps is a legal thriller novel authored by American politician and writer Stacey Abrams, published on May 11, 2021.

Background

The book centers around a law clerk for an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. After the Justice becomes gravely ill, the law clerk becomes his legal guardian. Abrams commented the inspiration for the book came from a conversation with her mother, in which her mother noted Article Three of the United States Constitution allows for a lifetime appointment for justices, but "has no failsafe for a person being physically unable to do the job."

Publication

The novel is the first one published with Abrams' name, as her previous novels have all been written under the pen name Selena Montgomery.

Immediately following its release, the book was the #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for fiction novels.

Television adaptation

The novel is currently being produced as a television series by Working Title Films, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures.

References

1. Stacey Abrams
2. Cybill Shepherd
3. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
4. Sleep
5. Ivan Passer
6. List of programs previously broadcast by NBC
7. Judge Romesh
8. List of American novelists
9. Until It Sleeps
10. Sleep deprivation
11. Rapid eye movement sleep
12. Justice
13. The Story So Far (band)
14. Driving while black
15. Sleep Now in the Fire
16. List of Justice League episodes
17. List of Young Justice episodes
18. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
19. Out for Justice
20. Restorative justice