Nina Totenberg

NPR legal correspondent

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Administration Asks Supreme Court To End Calif. Gay-Marriage Ban

Friday, March 01, 2013

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The Obama administration has filed a friend of the court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down California's ban on gay marriage as a denial of "equal protection under the law." But the brief does not call for the abolition of all state bans on same-sex ...

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Obama Administration To File Brief Urging Supreme Court To Strike Down Prop. 8

Thursday, February 28, 2013

By Audie Cornish / Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

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Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Voting Rights Act

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

Once again, race is front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. And once again, the bull's eye is the 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely viewed as the most effective and successful civil rights legislation in American history. Upheld five times by the court, the law now appears ...

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Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Challenge Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

A sharply divided Supreme Court has made it practically impossible for American citizens to challenge the constitutionality of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

FISA is the federal law that authorizes large-scale electronic surveillance of phone calls and emails to and from targets abroad and individuals in the United States. By ...

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Supreme Court Considers If Warrantless DNA Swab Violates Constitution

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Tuesday in a case that could throw a monkey wrench into the widespread use of DNA testing — a case that pits modern technology against notions of personal privacy.

Twenty-eight states and the federal government have enacted laws that provide for automatic DNA ...

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A Justice Deliberates: Sotomayor On Love, Health And Family

Monday, January 14, 2013

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is open about how she benefited from affirmative action, how she came to terms with her diabetes and the "out-of-body experience" of being appoin...

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Supreme Court To Look At Who Is A 'Supervisor' In Harassment Cases

Monday, November 26, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The court's answer to that question could significantly restrict employer liability in racial and sexual harassment cases, or, in the view of some business organizations, it could result in frivolous litigation.

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Supreme Court To Review Voting Rights Act

Friday, November 09, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The court said it would look at a key provision that requires certain jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to get approval before changing any election procedures. For decad...

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Supreme Court Soldiers On, Despite Sandy

Monday, October 29, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

While the rest of the federal government shut down Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court was open for business as usual — at least long enough to hear two cases argued. It is hardly the firs...

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Surveillance Act Criticized, But Can It Be Fought?

Monday, October 29, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The Supreme Court will consider whether to allow a challenge to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Monday. Opponents of the law call it unnecessarily intrusive, but that's n...

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Marriage Law Likely Headed To Supreme Court

Friday, October 19, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

A federal appeals court ruling has catapulted a New York case to the head of the line, as the Supreme Court considers which of many cases it should use to decide whether the Defense o...

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Arlen Specter, Senator Who Gave No Quarter, Dies

Sunday, October 14, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The five-term senator, a moderate Republican-turned-Democrat, was a key member of the Judiciary Committee and consistently a thorn for leaders of both political parties and their pres...

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Court Questions University's Affirmative Action Plan

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

At issue is whether the University of Texas, Austin discriminated against a white applicant when it did not offer her a spot. At Wednesday's argument, a court majority seemed poised t...

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High Court Preps For Another Headline-Making Term

Monday, October 01, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

Decisions are expected this term on affirmative action in higher education, same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act and a lot of privacy issues. The court opens the term Monday by ta...

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High Court Bars Mandatory Life Terms For Juveniles

Monday, June 25, 2012

By Ali Frick / Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

By a 5-4 vote, the court said juveniles may still be sentenced to life without parole, but that to do so automatically, without allowing the judge or jury to consider other factors, w...

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Defense Rests In Roger Clemens Perjury Trial

Monday, June 11, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The arguments came to a close with the baseball star taking the stand. Clemens is accused of lying to Congress about his use of performance enhancing drugs.

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Clemens' Former Trainer Admits Changing Testimony

Friday, May 18, 2012

By Nina Totenberg : NPR legal correspondent

The prosecution's star witness underwent a withering cross-examination on Thursday at Roger Clemens' perjury trial. Brian McNamee is the only person with firsthand evidence that contr...

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20 Years Later: Anita Hill and the Justice Thomas Confirmation Hearings

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

By Sarah P. Reynolds

I'm a journalist. I'm a reporter. I cover the court. This was my story. I thought it was a credible story but you know, you saw what I saw and I don't think we actually have proof pos...

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20 Years Later: Anita Hill and the Justice Thomas Confirmation Hearings

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Two decades later, Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent, talks about the ripple effects of Justice Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings and Anita Hill's accusations against him.

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SCOTUS Notes

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Supreme Court begins a new session with a new member: Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Nina Totenberg, NPR’s legal affairs correspondent, sizes up the new session and upcoming cases on issues from gun control to campaign finance.

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