“The Future of the Supreme Court and Justice in the United States”



Moderated by Fredric D. Rutberg, president, publisher and co-owner of The Berkshire Eagle, and a retired district court judge.

Featuring

Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is Yale Law School's Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law. Greenhouse covered the U.S. Supreme Court for the New York Times for nearly 30 of her 40 years with the paper and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the court. She is the author of several books, including 2017's "Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between," and continues to write a column for the Times.



Francis X. Spina

Francis X. Spina served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for 17 years until his retirement in 2016. Before that, Spina served as a jduge on the Massachusetts Appeals Court and on the Superior Court. He also worked as an assistant city solicitor in Pittsfield, a second assistant district attorney in Berkshire County, and a partner in a private law practice.