Nina Totenberg

NPR legal correspondent

Nina Totenberg appears in the following:

Supreme Court: Should Eastern Oklahoma Be Considered An Indian Reservation?

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

The Supreme Court hears a capital case where it will have to decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma, a massive area including much of Tulsa, is an Indian reservation.

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Chief Justice Roberts Issues Rare Rebuke To Trump; Trump Fires Back

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Roberts took issue with the president's calling a federal judge who ruled against the administration's policy toward asylum-seekers "an Obama judge."

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Federal Judge Orders White House To Restore Press Credentials To CNN's Jim Acosta

Friday, November 16, 2018

In a narrow ruling, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said the White House did not provide CNN's Jim Acosta with the due process required to legally revoke his press pass.

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Judge Rules In Favor Of CNN, Temporarily Restores Correspondent's Credential

Friday, November 16, 2018

The federal judge said the White House cannot revoke reporters' access without due process, as apparently happened in Jim Acosta's case. President Trump said the administration was writing up rules.

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How A Lawyer In The CNN Case Saved Me From Being Shut Down On My Beat

Thursday, November 15, 2018

NPR's Nina Totenberg was frozen out at the Justice Department in the early 1980s. Ted Olson, among those defending Jim Acosta over his revoked press pass, got Totenberg back in the loop.

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Decision Delayed To Friday In CNN Suit Over White House Revoking Acosta's Press Pass

Thursday, November 15, 2018

CNN is calling the action unconstitutional. However, the White House argues that a president gets to select who interviews him and that a news conference is just "an interview with 100 people."

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Trump Versus News Media Lands In Court

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

A federal judge in Washington appointed by the president will hear a case brought by CNN and joined by other outlets about the stripped credentials of a reporter.

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Maryland Says Matthew Whitaker Appointment As Acting Attorney General Is Unlawful

Monday, November 12, 2018

As part of an ongoing lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act, Maryland requested a preliminary injunction that would declare Rod Rosenstein the acting attorney general instead.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized After Falling, Fracturing 3 Ribs

Thursday, November 08, 2018

The 85-year-old justice fell in her office at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday evening. She has been hospitalized for "observation and treatment."

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Heightened Security As Brett Kavanaugh Formally Takes Supreme Court Seat

Thursday, November 08, 2018

The court said that because of security concerns, Kavanaugh would not walk down the court's long outside staircase with the chief justice.

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SCOTUS To Hear Lawsuit Against Sudan On USS Cole Attack

Thursday, November 08, 2018

Supreme Court justices hear a lawsuit against the country of Sudan brought by victims of an attack against the USS Cole in 2000. The case hinges on whether the notice was sent to the correct address.

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Trump Administration Sides With Sudan Against USS Cole Survivors In Lawsuit

Thursday, November 08, 2018

Notice of the suit was sent to Sudan's U.S. Embassy instead of to its capital. The administration told the Supreme Court that it agrees with Sudan, which is accused of backing the Cole attackers.

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O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The story of William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor, his Stanford Law School classmate, in the early 1950s has been unknown even to friends, colleagues and family — until now.

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Trump, Republicans Continue Remaking The Federal Courts — Even As Senate On Recess

Saturday, October 27, 2018

This October, the Senate Judiciary Committee has, for the first time ever, held judicial nomination hearings during a recess of the Senate — over the objections of the minority party.

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Republicans Holding Judicial Hearing With Senate In Recess

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Republicans are holding judicial confirmation hearings with the Senate in recess, while Democrats are opposed.

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Sandra Day O'Connor Announces She Has Dementia, Steps Back From Public Life

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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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Sandra Day O'Connor Says She Has Dementia, Withdraws From Public Life

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, says she has been diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."

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The Tale Of The Stolen Totenberg Stradivarius Ends With A New Legacy

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

When the FBI recovered virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg's stolen Stradivarius after his death, his daughters wanted the instrument to be played everywhere. Ensuring that was not so simple.

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What's Next For The Supreme Court This Term

Sunday, October 07, 2018

With the start of a new Supreme Court term and a new justice confirmed, we look at what we can expect from the country's highest court in the months ahead.

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How Will The Battle Over Kavanaugh's Nomination Impact The Other Justices?

Friday, October 05, 2018

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?

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