How the Religious Right took the Supreme Court

Linda Greenhouse's byline became synonymous with the supreme court during the 30 years she covered it for the New York Times. She excelled at unraveling complex legal riddles for the average reader. She also had tremendous common sense -- an essential and depressingly rare quality among journalists. Both of these virtues are on display in her new book, which chronicles "12 months that transformed the supreme court" after the death of the liberal lion Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the obscenely rapid confirmation of her conservative successor, Amy Coney Barrett.