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Jury selection to begin for 4 men accused in plot to kidnap Michigan's governor

7:27am March 08, 2022

by Tyler Scott

A trial starts Tuesday for four men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The men's attorneys plan to argue that they were entrapped.

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Politics & Government

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now

8:07pm March 07, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

In cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republican state legislatures sought to block decisions issued by state supreme courts based on the states' respective constitutions.

Brandon Jackson aims to help others who were convicted with split decisions

5:01am March 07, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Brandon Jackson, who spent 25 years in prison in Louisiana after being convicted by a non-unanimous jury, which is now an unconstitutional practice.

Ron Shehee had been at the federal prison complex in Lompoc, Calif., only a few months when the pandemic struck.

As COVID spread in federal prisons, many at-risk inmates tried and failed to get out

5:00am March 07, 2022

Federal prisons saw a significant rise in deaths during the pandemic years, NPR found. Of those who died from COVID-19, nearly all were elderly or had health conditions, and many had tried to get out.

National

What a Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring to the Supreme Court

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, about the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

National

Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring public defender background to Supreme Court

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with former Federal Public Defender Martin Sabelli about why he thinks so few public defenders are appointed to federal judgeships.

Politics & Government

Rioters plea guilty this week as Jan. 6 panel alleges Trump broke the law

8:01am March 05, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon speaks with independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, who covers national security, about the latest developments in the Jan. 6 insurrection trial.

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration's arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the senten

Politics & Government

The Supreme Court reimposes a death sentence for the Boston bomber

6:08pm March 04, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court in Boston that had overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. The 2013 attack killed three people.

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About 100 voting bills have now been introduced in the Arizona legislature, many are seen as limiting or restricting access to the ballot box.

Politics & Government

Arizona Republicans continue pushing voting restrictions, risking backfire

4:53pm March 04, 2022

Republican lawmakers in Arizona are introducing nearly a hundred so-called voter reform bills this year despite two reviews showing there were no problems with the 2020 presidential election.

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Biden and Vice President Harris, speaks after being nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court at the White House on Feb. 25.

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Civil rights activists are prepared to fight for Jackson's nomination to the court

3:48pm March 04, 2022

by Sandhya Dirks

The confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson are set for March 21. Activists who pushed for a Black woman are excited and ready for a fight.

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