Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse says the current Supreme Court is more deferential to religion. 

Did the "moderate" Burger Court set a precedent for right-leaning justices? 

 Have it your way: the Warren Court's sharp rightward turn may have set the stage for many recent rulings.

Does the liberal intellectual press really influence the Supreme Court? 

Does the liberal intellectual press really influence the Supreme Court? 

Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, lecturer at Yale Law School, most recent book is The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, discusses the stakes of the Voting Rights Act case being argued before the Supreme Court today. 

Next week the Supreme Court will hear Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, the case that will decide the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, or health insurance reform. The case includes a number of questions about states' rights, federal jurisdiction, and individual liberty. In addition, it shines a spotlight on the institution that will decide the constitutionality of President Obama's signature legislation. 

Following in the legislative footsteps of Nebraska, which has had a law on its books for a year that bans abortion after 20 weeks, at least a dozen states are considering some type of restriction to abortion. According to the Guttmacher Institute, by the end of March, seven states will have have enacted 15 new laws that restrict abortion. In South Dakota a new law will soon go into effect that will expand the pre-abortion waiting period from 24 to 72 hours and require counseling from a crisis pregnancy center. Are we seeing a state-by-state permanent change to abortion rights? 

Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, lecturer at Yale Law School, and author of Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before The Supreme Court's Ruling, discusses David Souter's recent graduation address at Harvard Law School.