Nina Totenberg
Stories
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Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abusers
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Trump's immunity arguments and the experiences of the justices who might support it
Five of the six conservatives spent much of their lives in the Beltway, working in the White House and Justice Department, seeing their administrations as targets of unfair harassment by Democrats.
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Supreme Court to hear historic arguments on Trump's immunity claim
Former President Donald Trump's attorneys claim he has immunity from criminal charges over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump is making a broad argument for immunity.
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Heated arguments at the Supreme Court in newest abortion case
At issue is a clash between federal and state law about how pregnant women must be treated in the emergency room.
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The Supreme Court opens the door to more discrimination claims involving job transfers
The U.S. Supreme Court has made it easier for workers to bring employment discrimination suits over job transfers. The decision was unanimous, but the reasoning was not.
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Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters
Conservatives on the court expressed varying degrees of skepticism about the charge of obstructing an official proceeding.
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Supreme Court hears challenge to a statute used to try hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided, with conservatives expressing various degrees of skepticism about the statute used to prosecute more than 350 of the Jan. 6th rioters who invaded the capitol.
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A Supreme Court abortion pill case with potential consequences for every other drug
At issue is the FDA's regulatory power to approve drugs and continually evaluate their safety — a system that until now has been widely viewed as the gold standard for both safety and innovation
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Supreme Court seems wary of barring government contacts with social media
At issue was a sweeping Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that barred government officials from having contacts with social media platforms.
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Supreme Court examines whether government can combat disinformation online
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.