12 months that shook the US Supreme Court

The challenge the book faces, therefore, doesn't derive from Greenhouse's admirably clear account of the court's business

JUSTICE ON THE BRINK

Author: Metropolitan Books

Publisher: WileyPress

Pages: 336

Price: $28

Linda Greenhouse’s new book on the Supreme Court opens in October 2020, with the drama of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment by Donald Trump. By rights it should have started in 2009, when Barack Obama was president, Democrats controlled the Senate and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — her second cancer diagnosis in a decade. Ginsburg lived another 11 years, spectacularly beating the odds even after a third diagnosis in 2018. But in retrospect, nothing is clearer than that she should have resigned expeditiously after learning she had