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The gripping story of the Supreme Court's transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning law columnist for The New York Times
"A dazzling feat . . . meaty, often scintillating and sometimes scary . . . Greenhouse is a virtuoso of SCOTUS analysis."- The Washington Post
In Justice on the Brink, legendary journalist Linda Greenhouse gives us unique insight into a court under stress, providing the context and brilliant analysis readers of her work in The New York Times have come to expect. In a page-turning narrative, she recounts the twelve months when the court turned its back on its legacy and traditions, abandoning any effort to stay above and separate from politics. With remarkable clarity and deep institutional knowledge, Greenhouse shows the seeds being planted for the court's eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, expansion of access to guns, and unprecedented elevation of religious rights in American society. Both a chronicle and a requiem, Justice on the Brink depicts the struggle for the soul of the Supreme Court, and points to the future that awaits all of us.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The Supreme Court reached a tipping point and lurched rightward with the arrival of Amy Coney Barrett, according to this probing examination of recent decisions. Pulitzer-winner Greenhouse (Becoming Justice Blackmun) surveys the fallout from the death in 2020 of liberal feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her replacement by Barrett, a conservative Catholic with antiabortion personal views. Barrett's impact is most visible in clinching conservative majorities that struck down Covid-19 restrictions on religious services, part of the Court's trend, Greenhouse writes, toward using religious-freedom claims as "an off-ramp from a law intended to apply to everyone." Greenhouse also discusses abortion-rights cases that might undermine Roe v. Wade, and the Court's rightward drift on voting rights and affirmative action. Though the treatment of Barrett, who's described as the conservative judicial movement's "chosen one," is somewhat melodramatic, Greenhouse incisively dissects the crucial struggle between doctrinaire conservatives Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, and Chief Justice John Roberts, whose preferred strategy is to gradually change Court jurisprudence through subtle rulings on low-profile cases. Distinguished by Greenhouse's vivid profiles of the justices and lucid unraveling of their knotty legal theories, this is a revelatory study of the Supreme Court in flux. (Nov.)
Kirkus Review
The veteran New York Times Supreme Court reporter charts the first term of the right-leaning, avowedly religious supermajority now on the bench. Why are six of the nine Supreme Court justices Catholic? The answer, writes Greenhouse, can be "summarized in one word: abortion." While a president isn't supposed to demand a quid-pro-quo pledge to end Roe v. Wade, the assumption is that an observant Catholic will quietly do their best to undermine the constitutional right to abortion. Thus it surely was when Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, who, though well prepared for the post--a Notre Dame Law professor called her the best student he'd ever seen--was also identified with far-right conservatism, a key member of the Federalist Society "who proclaimed her fidelity to a theory of constitutional interpretation known as originalism." Never mind that the original Constitution made little room for non-Whites and nonmales: Barrett joined with a long line of conservative justices who saw little room for constitutional evolution. Though Greenhouse warns that the shift to a far-right court will make it Trump's more than Chief Justice Roberts' for decades to come, Barrett has surprised with a couple of judgments, notably in refusing to allow challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Even so, observes the author, Barrett has also quietly participated in a privileging of religious conviction, perhaps opening the door to challenges to same-sex marriage on the grounds of one's religious views. "Renegotiating the boundary between church and state was part of the unstated charge to the most recent nominees," writes Greenhouse, "so the degree to which religion dominated the 2021-2022 term came as no surprise." And if Barrett and, to a lesser extent, Kavanaugh have not leapt into this renegotiation with vigor yet, Greenhouse suggests that it's only a matter of time until they do. For Supreme Court watchers, provocative; for civil libertarians, alarming. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
As she's been covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times for four decades, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Greenhouse is well situated to give us a real understanding of what happened to the Court during a crucial 12-month period. As she points out, by the end of the 2019--20 term, the Court had released some moderate decisions. But then came Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death and Amy Coney Barrett's ascension to the Court, which tilted it rightward and, she asserts, will shape its rulings for years to come.