Oregon Legislature Votes To Essentially Ban Single-Family Zoning The bill makes duplexes allowable in cities over 10,000 people, and quadplexes legal in the Portland metro area. It's part of a growing change to zoning policy amid a national housing crisis. Laurel Wamsley
'More And More Common': Woman Indicted For Manslaughter After Her Fetus Was Shot NPR's Michel Martin speaks with law professor Dorothy Roberts about the case of Marshae Jones, who was indicted on manslaughter charges after her fetus was shot by another woman.
How The Fight Over The Census Citizenship Question Could Rage On President Trump threatened to delay next year's constitutionally mandated head count hours after the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off 2020 census forms for now. Hansi Lo Wang
Woman Indicted For Manslaughter After Death Of Her Fetus, May Avoid Prosecution The district attorney overseeing the Alabama case called the incident a tragedy and said she is deliberating whether to move forward with prosecution, reduce the charge or drop it altogether. Vanessa Romo
Neo-Nazi Who Killed Charlottesville Protester Is Sentenced To Life In Prison James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring many others. He pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes, avoiding the death penalty. Bobby Allyn
Georgia Abortion Providers File Federal Suit Against State's 'Fetal Heartbeat' Law "This is a constitutional challenge" to Georgia's law, the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit, in which they call the abortion restrictions "an affront to the dignity and health of Georgians." Bill Chappell
President Of Common Cause Discusses Supreme Court Decision In Gerrymandering Case NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the group Common Cause, about the North Carolina gerrymandering case decided Thursday by the Supreme Court. The group is the plaintiff.
Supreme Court Delivers 2 Major 5-4 Decisions It was a big day at the Supreme Court. For now, it blocked a citizenship question from being on the Census. Separately, it said political redistricting is a question beyond the reach of the courts. Nina Totenberg
Supreme Court Rules On Citizenship Question, Partisan Gerrymandering The Supreme Court is blocking a citizenship question from the 2020 census for now. Also, it ruled that partisan redistricting is a political question that federal courts cannot weigh in on. Nina Totenberg
Supreme Court Affirms Police Can Draw Blood From Unconscious Drivers In a 5-4 vote, the court upheld a Wisconsin law that says people driving on a public road have given implied consent to having their blood drawn if police suspect them of driving under the influence. Nina Totenberg