How the Supreme Court Lost the American Public, featuring Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and continues to write regularly for the newspaper’s Opinion pages. Her books include Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction; and a memoir, Just a Journalist: Reflections on the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between. Her latest book is Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court (Random House, 2021). This event is part of the Wayne Morse Center's Defending Democracy theme and is funded in part by the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.