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Joan Biskupic

Supreme Court Correspondent
USA TODAY

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Joan Biskupic

Joan Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. She is the author of  "Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice" (Ecco/HarperCollins). She is currently working on a book about Justice Antonin Scalia to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Before joining USA TODAY in June 2000, Biskupic was the Supreme Court reporter for the Washington Post (1992-2000) and legal affairs writer for Congressional Quarterly (1989-1992). Prior to that, she covered government and politics for newspapers in Wisconsin and Oklahoma. Biskupic holds a law degree from Georgetown University. She is the author of several legal reference books, including Congressional Quarterly’s two-volume encyclopedia on the Supreme Court (3rd Ed., 1997, with co-editor Elder Witt). She is married and has a young daughter.


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