Justice on the Brink

A brilliant, sharply-written and salient chronicle of a year like no other in Supreme Court—or American—history, by The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 term, it felt like the center might hold. The fear that the Court would lurch irrevocably to the radical right hadn't come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions on cases involving abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and how local governments could handle the pandemic, all shepherded by Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020-2021 term, everything will have changed. The Court's right-wing supermajority will complete its first term, cementing Donald Trump's legacy on American jurisprudence.
 
This is the story of that year. From the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the rise of Amy Coney Barrett, from the pandemic to the election, from the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the storming of the Capitol...