Supreme Court Journalist Linda Greenhouse

What I Don’t Miss About The New York Times

Linda Greenhouse covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2007. Currently, she is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Before talking about where she thinks SCOTUS is headed next, she sat down in the Zócalo green room to dish about what she doesn’t miss about life at a daily newspaper, what she wishes she had asked the justices when she was on the Supreme Court beat, and how she deals with inner conflict when …

February 14, 2013

What Will That Feisty SCOTUS Do Next?

Journalist Linda Greenhouse Assesses the Trajectory of the Roberts-Era Supreme Court

by Sarah Rothbard | January 18, 2013

In three decades of covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse wrote about 2,700 cases. In front of a large crowd at the Skirball Cultural Center, …

Supreme Partisans?

The High Court Can Seem More Partisan, But Justices Are Still Protected From Political Winds

January 15, 2013

Two generations ago, the U.S. Supreme Court was respected by an overwhelming majority of Americans—and seen as mostly separate from politics. But that perception has been changing as the press …

Clearing the Benches

Hyper Partisanship in Washington Decimates Federal Courts

by Jason LaBau | December 12, 2011

“The benches are empty! The benches are empty!”

Whether you are attending a Tea Party meeting or an Occupy Wall Street protest, you are unlikely to hear that rallying cry. But …

Supreme Misunderstanding

D.C., Arizona Conservatives Don't See Politics the Same Way

by Jason LaBau | July 7, 2011

The United States Supreme Court last month made headlines with a 5-4 decision to strike down a key provision of Arizona’s campaign finance law that gave additional funds to candidates …

Land of the Violent, Home of the Chaste

The Supreme Court Maintains the Puritanical Ban On Sexual Expression

by Thaddeus Russell | July 6, 2011

Last week’s Supreme Court decision striking down California’s ban on selling violent video games to kids is no victory for free speech. In fact, the majority decision, authored by Justice …

Two Would-Be Supreme Court Justices and Me

How Do You Cope When Two of Your High School Newspaper Friends Show Up on the Short Lists for the Nation’s Highest Court?

Make the Supreme Court’s 4-4 Split Permanent

An Equal Number of Conservative and Liberal Justices Would Promote Compromise, Not Stalemate

California vs. the Supreme Court

The Time Has Come to Challenge This Dishonorable Court’s Bias Against Our State

The Chief Justice Who Elevated the Supreme Court Into a Co-Equal Branch of Government

Before John Marshall, the Court Had Been a Constitutional Afterthought

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