Guest Essay
Who Cares if Supreme Court Justices Get Along?
What really matters is what the court does or doesn’t do.
By Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse, the winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The New York Times from 1978 to 2008. She teaches at Yale Law School and is the author of the memoir “Just a Journalist.” Other books include “The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction”; a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, “Becoming Justice Blackmun”; “Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court”; and “The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right,” which she wrote with Michael J. Graetz.
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Guest EssayLet’s Thank the Alabama Supreme Court
Its decision that embryos are people offers a warning of the future toward which America may be heading.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayThere’s a Border War Inside the Supreme Court, Too
Texas has presented the justices with the vehicle some of them have been waiting for to undo decades, if not centuries, of federal supremacy.
By Linda Greenhouse
A Forgotten Chapter of Abortion History Repeats Itself
More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a drug that caused severe birth defects.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayWhat Sandra Day O’Connor Got Wrong
She believed the court’s decisions were mostly careful byproducts of an emerging social consensus. That may have been true then, but not today.
By Linda Greenhouse
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93
During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayWill the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women?
Even pro-firearms politicians are absent in the briefs supporting a lawsuit to make it harder to keep weapons out of abusers’ hands.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayLook at What John Roberts and His Court Have Wrought Over 18 Years
The constitutional world is profoundly different from when John Roberts became chief justice 18 years ago.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayIs There Any Twinge of Regret Among the Anti-Abortion Justices?
A year later, the consequences for women have been alarming.
By Linda Greenhouse
Guest EssayReligion Has Friends Among Judges in High Places
Will there ever be a religious claim anymore that goes too far?
By Linda Greenhouse
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