Nina Totenberg
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Supreme Court hears clash between LGBTQ and business owners' rights
The case involves a Colorado web designer who says state law prevents her from designing wedding websites because she believes that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. → Read More
Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden's student debt-relief program
The court's action means the rollout of debt cancellation will remain blocked until justices hear arguments about the program in February. → Read More
Supreme Court hears Texas challenge to federal immigration priorities
The Biden administration's priorities were to find and deport noncitizens who are a threat to national security, who have been convicted of serious crimes and who pose a threat to border security. → Read More
Supreme Court paves the way for release of Trump's tax returns to a House panel
The decision likely means that the returns will be released to the Committee immediately, ending a multi-year legal battle. → Read More
Supreme Court struggles with a case dealing with the rights of Native American Tribes
In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race → Read More
Supreme Court considers fate of landmark Indian adoption law
At issue is whether the the Indian Child Welfare Act — aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their tribes — is tribal protection or racial classification. → Read More
The Supreme Court won't block the student loan debt relief program, at least for now
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group. → Read More
Supreme Court declines to consider challenge to racist citizenship laws
The action dashes hopes of American Samoans who were seeking birthright citizenship and leaves intact a decision that breathed new life into distinctions between U.S. states and territories. → Read More
Supreme Court turns away Trump objections in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
The court's action was announced even as the Jan. 6 committee was conducting its last public hearing focused on Trump's role in the violence at the Capitol after the election. → Read More
The Supreme Court hears pork industry's case against an animal welfare law
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case in which the pork industry is challenging the constitutionality of a California animal welfare law.(Story aired on ATC on Oct. 11, 2022.) → Read More
Supreme Court dives into pop culture with Warhol, Prince and Norman Lear
The question in the case was whether Andy Warhol's renditions of Prince were transformative under the copyright law, and thus do not infringe on photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright. → Read More
Roe Is Done — Here Are The Next Supreme Court Cases To Watch
The high court, which now includes Biden nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, will hear cases that will determine the future of affirmative action, voting rights and election integrity.And the president announced that he will pardon people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law and D.C. statute. That will impact far fewer of people compared to the number convicted on state charges,… → Read More
Supreme Court conservatives may strike another blow to landmark Voting Rights Act
At issue in Tuesday's case was Alabama's congressional redistricting plan, adopted by the Republican state legislature after the 2020 Census. → Read More
The landmark Voting Rights Act faces further dismantling at the Supreme Court
The law is once again on the chopping block — this time on the question of how state legislatures may draw congressional district lines when the state's voters are racially polarized. → Read More
The Supreme Court returns with a busy day of arguments, orders and a new justice
The court heard arguments in a major case pitting environmental regulators against property rights advocates backed by industries with a history of pollution. → Read More
The Supreme Court will begin a new term with more contentious cases on its docket
The fate of affirmative action programs in college admissions, redistricting and elections are in the hands of the justices as the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term. → Read More
Book excerpt: "Dinners with Ruth" by Nina Totenberg
The NPR legal affairs correspondent writes of the power of friendship, including the very special ties she formed with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. → Read More
Book excerpt: "Like a Rolling Stone" by Jann Wenner
In his new memoir the founder of Rolling Stone writes of the magazine's emergence as a celebration of the power and artistry of rock music – and also about a more personal celebration, when he is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. → Read More
The Supreme Court is the most conservative in 90 years
In an astounding 62% of the decisions, conservatives prevailed, and more importantly, often prevailed in dramatic ways, according to new data. → Read More
Supreme Court to take on controversial election-law case
At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by the state courts and state constitutions. → Read More