Republicans Will Attempt To Push Through A Supreme Court Nominee NPR's Noel King talks to Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation and former assistant to President Trump about the administration's strategy for picking the next Supreme Court justice.
How A Perpetrator's Race And Age Factor Into Who Is Executed The federal death penalty process is considered the "gold standard" in the justice system but evidence suggests it's plagued by racial disparities and ineffective legal representation. Carrie Johnson
Former Senators On Filling Ginsburg's Seat At The Supreme Court NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with former Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., about the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Lie In Repose At Supreme Court This Week For Public Viewing The justice, who died last Friday, will be buried Sept. 29 at Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband of 56 years, Marty Ginsburg. Nina Totenberg
Trump To Name His Pick For Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat President Trump and Senate Republicans appear determined to get a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before the November election. Democrats are vowing to stop that from happening. Mara Liasson
Trump's TikTok Deal: What Just Happened And Why Does It Matter? President Trump is claiming victory after blessing a deal in which Oracle and Walmart will own a stake of TikTok, but experts wonder whether the terms of the agreement will really change anything. Bobby Allyn
Should The Next Supreme Court Justice Be Nominated Before The Election? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Adam White, a legal scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, about what GOP Senators must weigh before voting on the next Supreme Court nominee.
Ginsburg's Death Sets Up A Pitched Battle Over Abortion Rights The vacancy on the Supreme Court by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to lead to a fight over abortion rights. Five justices lean conservative compared to three liberal justices. Sarah McCammon
If Republicans Confirm New Justice, Scholars Say Democratic Court Packing Is Possible Some Democrats are open to packing the Supreme Court in response to what they perceive as an illegitimate court appointment. But the move could cause a "spiral" of retaliation, experts say. Matthew S. Schwartz
White House Plans To Move Quickly To Nominate Supreme Court Justice President Trump plans to announce a nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week, with just six weeks before Election Day. Tamara Keith