Linda Greenhouse

Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

The legal academy has grown dismissive of Justice O’Connor, but the Supreme Court is not a law school faculty workshop. She saw herself as a problem-solver.

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."