[12] In 2008, Greenhouse accepted an offer from The New York Times for an early retirement at the end of the Supreme Court session in the summer of 2008.

[14] In 2010, Greenhouse and co-author Reva Siegel put out a book on the development of the abortion debate prior to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the subject: Before Roe v. Wade.

[17] Greenhouse was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998 "for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.

But when it came time during my senior year to look for a job in journalism, the Herald would not even give me an interview, and neither would the Boston Globe, because these newspapers had no interest in hiring women.

"[17] Greenhouse has expressed her personal views as an outspoken advocate for abortion and critic of conservative religious values,[16] and a 2006 report on NPR questioned whether this compromised the appearance that she maintains journalistic neutrality on such matters.

Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, opined that the paper "should have clued in readers" to Greenhouse's conflict, but defended the neutrality of her coverage.