Nina Totenberg
Stories
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Supreme Court has another embarrassing misstep in the release of an abortion opinion
As the justices were announcing opinions on other matters, the court briefly posted a decision that would reinstate a lower court order allowing hospitals in Idaho to perform emergency abortions.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Biden administration in social media case
The court by a vote of 6 to 3 ruled that those challenging the government’s interaction with social media companies lacked legal standing to sue.
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Supreme Court to weigh in on laws banning treatments for trans minors
The justices have agreed to hear only the claim that Tennessee’s law denies trans minors the equal protection of the law.
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Supreme Court leaves Trump-era offshore tax in place on investors
The case had potentially trillions of dollars in tax consequences for the federal budget, and the court's decision could have severely limited congressional options in enacting tax policy.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks
The Supreme Court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices.
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Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts
The decision was a loss for part-time Democratic activist Steve Elster, who contended that the living-person exception to the trademark law violated his right of free speech.
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristone
The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.
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What's next up for the Supreme Court? Abortion rights, gun laws and more
The Supreme Court will be issuing major rulings in the next month. Normally by this point in the term there are between four and six really big cases left. This year, there are over a dozen.
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Sandra Day O'Connor Announces She Has Dementia, Steps Back From Public Life
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is stepping back from public life, announcing Tuesday that she was diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."
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How Will The Battle Over Kavanaugh's Nomination Impact The Other Justices?
The partisanship and bitterness of the last few weeks have also resonated across the street from the Capitol, at the Supreme Court. What will be the impact on the justices?
