1. Linda Joyce Greenhouse was born on January 9,1947 and is an American legal journalist who is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
13 Facts About Linda Greenhouse
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Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.
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Linda Greenhouse received her Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1968, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Linda Greenhouse received her Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School in 1978, during which time she was a student of Robert Bork.
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Linda Greenhouse has been a regular guest on the PBS program Washington Week.
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In 2008, Linda Greenhouse accepted an offer from The New York Times for an early retirement at the end of the Supreme Court session in the summer of 2008.
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From 2010 to 2021, Linda Greenhouse wrote a biweekly opinion column for The New York Times, centered on the Supreme Court.
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Linda Greenhouse criticized US policies and actions at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Haditha in a 2006 speech at Harvard University.
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Linda Greenhouse was a Radcliffe Institute Medal winner in 2006.
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Linda Greenhouse has expressed her personal views as an outspoken advocate for abortion and critic of conservative religious values, and a 2006 report on NPR questioned whether this compromised the appearance that she maintains journalistic neutrality on such matters.
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Ed Whelan, writing in a blog associated with National Review, suggested that Linda Greenhouse had an obligation to her readers to inform them when she reported on a Supreme Court case for which her husband, Eugene Fidell, had submitted an amicus brief, such as in the Hamdan case and the Boumediene case.
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Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick, writing in Slate, complained that the New York Times "had failed to stand up" for Linda Greenhouse and defended Linda Greenhouse from Whelan's criticism.
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Linda Greenhouse married lawyer Eugene R Fidell on January 1,1981, in Washington, DC, in a Jewish ceremony.