Law

What's behind the calls for Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to step down?

10:46am April 05, 2024

by Devan Schwartz

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Kate Shaw, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, about her thoughts on calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down.

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National

Migrant children waiting at the southern border must be sheltered, judge rules

7:26am April 05, 2024

The judge ruled children in makeshift camps along the border are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment.

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Morning news brief

5:12am April 05, 2024

President Biden talks with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The group No Labels will not run a third-party presidential candidate. Court rules border officials are responsible for children's welfare.

National

Maine AG wants shield law for health workers who perform care banned in other states

6:11pm April 04, 2024

by Kevin Miller | Maine Public

How much can states reach into each other's territory to enforce laws on abortion and transgender treatments? Maine's attorney general is attempting a "shield" law to protect health workers.

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Former President Donald Trump asked that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial be thrown out, citing the Presidential Records Act. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied the motion and said the case will proceed.

Judge rules Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case can proceed

5:56pm April 04, 2024

by Greg Allen

The former president's lawyers cited the Presidential Records Act in asking that the government's case be dismissed. Judge Aileen Cannon denied the motion — clearing the way for it to proceed.

A sports betting bill has yet again run into stiff opposition, this time in Alabama

3:14pm April 04, 2024

by Joseph King

Sports betting is still illegal in 12 states. In Alabama, an effort to legalize sports betting has stumbled amid opposition from religious conservatives and those concerned about problem gambling.

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Abortion opponents push for 'fetal personhood' laws, giving rights to embryos

3:12pm April 04, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

The Guardian's reproductive health reporter Carter Sherman says efforts are underway in a number of states to assign fetuses "some kind of rights that we would generally ascribe to a human person."

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference on Dec. 6, 2023, about DOJ's indictment of four Russian military personnel for war crimes committed against a U.S. national living in Ukraine, the first of such charges ever to be brought under the U.S. war crimes statute.

Politics & Government

DOJ takes a stand against war crimes in Ukraine. In Gaza war, it's been nearly silent

10:37am April 04, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

The Justice Department has taken an active — and public — stand against alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. But it's been nearly silent on possible war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war.

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Health & Safety

Tennessee case: How narrow can a medical exception be in a state's abortion ban?

10:23am April 04, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Women who say they've been harmed by Tennessee's abortion bans will be in court on Thursday. Plaintiff Nicole Blackmon says she endangered her life carrying a fetus that had no chance to live.

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National

Texas' immigration law is being challenged in court amid racial profiling concerns

5:12pm April 03, 2024

by Adrian Florido

Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.