True, Linda Greenhouse isn't dead, but Jan Crawford Greenburg has recently snagged several extremely high-profile gets, and if she's being compared to Eve Harrington ...
She talks about her recent success in this interview . In it she also talks about her new book, which Penguin is releasing later this month. It sounds like a must read.
I was fortunate enough to talk to nine Supreme Court justices, and a lot of what I heard surprised me. Some of the conventional wisdom is just wrong, especially about Justice Thomas and his early role on the Court. When I was doing the research on his early years, my heart would literally jump up every time I came across a memo or document that was completely at odds with what people have long said about him. The book is about how the Rehnquist Court came to disappoint conservatives--what went wrong from their point of view--and how those perceived missteps influenced the Bush Administration's thinking on Roberts, Miers and Alito.
Oh, and not only does she have an eagerly anticipated new book coming out, she apparently knows the answer to one of the most talked-about mysteries in Washington.
I guess the only interesting thing that didn't make TV or online was that he told me the precise date he (Justice John Paul Stevens) plans to retire.
But I take it she's going to follow the Woodward school of journalism and not share that juicy story with her readers for some time to come.
Posted by armand at January 6, 2007 01:14 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Law and the Courts | Media