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United States. Supreme Court

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent nearly three decades explaining the Supreme Court to the public, she makes one of the nation’s most powerful institutions feel understandable and human. Her writing brings legal history to life through the justices, cases, and conflicts that shaped it.

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Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford December Term, 1856.

Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford December Term, 1856.

by United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) Howard

About the author

Linda Greenhouse is an American legal journalist best known for covering the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times from 1978 to 2008. Yale Law School says she later joined its faculty as a senior research scholar in law and has continued writing about the Court and constitutional issues.

Over a long reporting career, she became one of the clearest and most trusted interpreters of the Court for general readers. Yale notes that she received major honors including the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1998.

Her work stands out for making difficult legal questions readable without losing their seriousness. That mix of authority, clarity, and storytelling makes her a natural guide for listeners who want to understand how the Supreme Court works and why its decisions matter.