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Summary Of Greenhous Green House By Linda Greenhouse

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Linda Greenhouse advocates for the need to maintain an active and informed civil dialogue with the court. She believes that the citizens of the United States are entitled to hold the Court to a set of performance standards. At the most basic level she believes it is the Court responsibility to speak to the public clearly in a way they would understand. Greenhouse understands that there is a specialized language in any legal opinion, but she feels that an education citizen should be able to understand the Courts decisions.Greenhouse describes the American citizenry as “the consumers of the Courts work….seems…we have a right to expert opinions we can understand. Thus, if the decisions of the Court impact the lives of everyday Americans Greenhouse feels that we have the right to understand the decisions. …show more content…

She explains that the public learns about Supreme Court opinions only “derivatively, through the media, or as mediated by politicians or leaders of other sectors of society”. If the wider audience “we the people “get information from these sources about Supreme Court decisions and the wider audience is not understanding this means the Court needs to do a better job communicating with these sources due to the fact that the American citizens are poorly informed. Greenhouse describes the relationship of the Court and press as “problematic at best”. Greenhouse addresses the fact that the Court is “often oblivious to what the press needs in order to do an adequate job of describing the Courts work.” This statement adds to Greenhouse claim because she feels it is the Courts responsibility as a political institution to have a better relationship with the press in order to meet the needs of the

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