Nina Totenberg
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court says Lindsey Graham must testify in grand jury Georgia election probe
He's been subpoenaed for questioning later this month about allegations that then President Donald Trump tried to interfere with Georgia's ballot count after the 2020 election.
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court's conservatives are openly hostile to affirmative action in admissions
If they do what it sounded like they will do, it will end the ability of colleges and universities, public and private, to consider race as one factor in admissions.
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Law & Courts
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.
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Law & Courts
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.
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Law & Courts
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.
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Law & Courts
Pigs can't fly, but they can produce tough legal questions at the Supreme Court
The case pitted most of the pork producers in the U.S. against a California law enacted by referendum by lopsided margins.
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Law & Courts
The Supreme Court hears the pork industry's case against an animal welfare law
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case where the pork industry is challenging the constitutionality of a California animal welfare law.
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Politics
Supreme Court hears arguments in case that could further decimate Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether a congressional map drawn by Alabama lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act.
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Law & Courts
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.
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Law & Courts
Samuel Alito, a workhorse on the Supreme Court, shapes its conservative path
The justice has played a key role on the court, often leading the charge not just on abortion, but for expanded religious rights, against LGBTQ rights, against expanded voting rights, and more