Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court as its Leader and at the Center

Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and author of a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was an editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and, previously, the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today.

She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism in 2015. In addition to her latest biography, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, Biskupic is the author of books on Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. Before joining CNN, she spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, law school.

A native of Chicago, Biskupic holds a law degree from Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC.

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