Nina Totenberg
Stories
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National
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act, handing tribes a major victory
The court rejects all of the challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, "some on the merits and others for lack of standing," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her majority opinion.
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The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact
The case pit prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.
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Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering
The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.
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Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports
Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
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Supreme Court vetoes efforts to limit anti-fraud law aimed at government contractors
The cases involve allegations that major retail pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.
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Supreme Court will hear a subpoena case that — surprise — Trump and Biden agree on
The case dates back to then-citizen Trump's 2013 agreement with the GSA to lease the Old Post Office Building in Washington for conversion into the Trump International Hotel.
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Dueling narratives at the Senate hearing on the Supreme Court
Democrats' avowed purpose was to get the Supreme Court to write a code of conduct for itself, or in the absence of that, for Congress to write one. The Republicans avowed purpose was quite different.
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Senators hear testimony on Supreme Court ethics
There are, however, no witnesses presenting the central players in the current drama over high court ethics — no member of the court.
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National
Chief Justice Roberts declines Senate invite to testify on Supreme Court ethics
Chief Justice John Roberts released a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin declining his invitation to testify about the ethical standards maintained by the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court blocks lower court decision in case on FDA approval of abortion pill
The Supreme Court has left the case in the hands of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has scheduled oral arguments in the case for May 17.