Biography
Joan Biskupic, CNN'S Chief Supreme Court analyst, has covered the Supreme Court for twenty-five years and is the author of several books on the judiciary. She recently published Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences.
Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. She previously was an editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and, before that position, the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today.
She is also the author of a biography of Chief Justice John Roberts (The Chief, spring 2019). Her previous books include Sandra Day O'Connor (2005), American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (2009) and Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice (2014).
A graduate of Georgetown University law school, Biskupic was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism in 2015.