Nina Totenberg
Stories
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Law & Courts
Group sues West Point, seeking to ban affirmative action in admissions
The military has long maintained that the nation's security depends on having a diverse officer corps that is ready to lead an increasingly diverse fighting force.
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Law & Courts
Alabama asks Supreme Court to aid a delay after June loss in voting case
Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court OKs completion of Mountain Valley gas pipeline
The case involved an emergency challenge to the final stages of development of the 303-mile pipeline, which is to span from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia.
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect
Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.
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Law & Courts
Chief Justice takes back the reins at the Supreme Court this term
Chief Justice Roberts kept a firm grip on the court. He assigned himself four of the seven most important opinions, including affirmative action, and he won some more nuanced outcomes.
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National
Supreme Court rules in favor of web designer who refused work for same-sex weddings
The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court kills Biden's student debt plan in a setback for millions of borrowers
The court unanimously dismissed on standing grounds a challenge to President Biden's groundbreaking plan to forgive some or all federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.
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Politics
Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse to do gay weddings
The court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."
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Politics
The Supreme Court rules against USPS in Sunday work case
The court ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian Postal Service carrier who refused to work on Sundays for religious reasons.
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Politics
Supreme Court guts affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions
The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.