Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent for 30 years, covering thousands of decisions written by 18 different justices. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998. Since 2009, she has taught at Yale Law School while continuing to write regular opinion pieces about the Court for the Times and other publications. Her books include Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey; Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court; and a memoir, Just a Journalist.

• List of illustrations


• Acknowledgments


• 1 Origins


• 2 The Court at work (1)


• 3 The justices


• 4 The chief justice


• 5 The Court at work (2)


• 6 The Court and the other branches


• 7 The Court and the public


• 8 The Court and the world


• Appendix 1: U.S. Constitution, Article III


• Appendix 2: The Supreme Court's rules


• Appendix 3: Chart of the Justices


• References


• Further reading


• Websites


• Index

For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works. The third edition tracks the changes in the Court's makeup over the past decade, including the landmark decisions of the Obama and Trump eras and the emergence of a conservative supermajority.