CNN legal expert to analyze Obama, Supreme Court tension, 6:30 pm Sept. 19

Jeffrey Toobin, senior CNN legal analyst and staff writer for The New Yorker, will discuss his new book, "The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court," at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the National Press Club.

A book signing will follow the event, which is free for Club members and $5 for all guests and non-members.

Purchase your tickets here: http://www.press.org/events/toobin. This event is a fundraiser for the NPC Journalism Institute. The author will only sign copies of the book purchased through the Club. No outside books or memorabilia are allowed.

"The Oath" is an insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.

From the moment Chief Justice Roberts blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational, according to Toobin. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation — and completely at odds on almost every major Constitutional issue, Toobin asserts.

This ideological war will crescendo during the 2011-2012 term, in which several landmark cases are on the Court's docket. With four new justices joining the Court in just five years, including Obama's appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, this is a dramatically—and historically—different Supreme Court, playing for the highest of stakes.