- Tue October 29, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Jan Crawford is CBS News’ chief legal correspondent and contributes regularly to the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, and Face the Nation, as well as CBS News Radio and CBSNews.com. She joined CBS News in 2009.
Crawford is a recognized authority on the Supreme Court whose 2007 book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for the Control of the United States Supreme Court, was a New York Times bestseller. She began covering the Court in 1994 for the Chicago Tribune and went on to become a law and political correspondent for all ABC News programs, a Supreme Court analyst for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer on PBS, and a legal analyst for CBS Evening News and Face the Nation. She has reported on most of the major judicial appointments and confirmation hearings of the past 15 years and cultivated sources in the White House, the Justice Department and Congress along the way.
Chief Justice John Roberts granted his first network television interview to Crawford, just one of the rare interviews she was able to obtain with a total of five of the Court’s current members, as well as retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Crawford also sat down with then-86-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens in his first television interview, as well as justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Stephen Breyer.
Crawford’s in-depth reports on the Bush administration’s legal war on terror and her exclusive reports on controversial interrogation techniques used for terror suspects have received wide acclaim and been credited with being a catalyst for congressional hearings.
Crawford is a graduate of University of Alabama and University of Chicago Law School. She is a member of the New York Bar.
Note: NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg was originally scheduled to appear on this date.