Nina Totenberg appears in the following:
Supreme Court hears Texas challenge to federal immigration priorities
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
The Biden administration's priorities were to find and deport noncitizens who are a threat to national security, who have been convicted of serious crimes and who pose a threat to border security.
U.S. Supreme Court faces dilemma over enforcing the country's immigration laws
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Can states sue the Department of Homeland Security over its rules enforcing the country's immigration laws? That's one of the questions being asked at the Supreme Court Tuesday.
Supreme Court paves the way for release of Trump's tax returns to a House panel
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
The decision likely means that the returns will be released to the Committee immediately, ending a multi-year legal battle.
Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee to subpoena Arizona GOP chair's phone records
Monday, November 14, 2022
The court's action means that specific parts of Kelli Ward's phone records will be turned over to the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.
Supreme Court struggles with a case dealing with the rights of Native American Tribes
Wednesday, November 09, 2022
In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race
Supreme Court hears arguments challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act
Wednesday, November 09, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday challenging the legality of the landmark Indian Child Welfare Act.
Supreme Court considers fate of landmark Indian adoption law
Tuesday, November 08, 2022
At issue is whether the the Indian Child Welfare Act — aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their tribes — is tribal protection or racial classification.
Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a grand jury in Georgia
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
The Supreme Court said Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a grand jury in Georgia. Graham claimed that because he is a senator, he is immune to testifying under the constitution.
Supreme Court says Lindsey Graham must testify in grand jury Georgia election probe
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
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.
Supreme Court's conservatives are openly hostile to affirmative action in admissions
Monday, October 31, 2022
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.
The Supreme Court hears affirmative action case
Monday, October 31, 2022
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a pair of cases that ask whether race can be considered in college admissions.
Can race play a role in college admissions? The Supreme Court hears the arguments
Monday, October 31, 2022
The justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents.
The Supreme Court won't block the student loan debt relief program, at least for now
Thursday, October 20, 2022
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.
Supreme Court declines to consider challenge to racist citizenship laws
Monday, October 17, 2022
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.
Supreme Court turns away Trump objections in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
Thursday, October 13, 2022
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.
The Supreme Court hears pork industry's case against an animal welfare law
Thursday, October 13, 2022
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case in which the pork industry is challenging the constitutionality of a California animal welfare law.(Story aired on ATC on Oct. 11, 2022.)
Supreme Court dives into pop culture with Warhol, Prince and Norman Lear
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
The question in the case was whether Andy Warhol's renditions of Prince were transformative under the copyright law, and thus do not infringe on photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright.
The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Images Andy Warhol created of Prince are at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. Warhol used a black-and-white portrait taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point.
Pigs can't fly, but they can produce tough legal questions at the Supreme Court
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
The case pitted most of the pork producers in the U.S. against a California law enacted by referendum by lopsided margins.
The Supreme Court hears the pork industry's case against an animal welfare law
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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.