Law

Politics & Government

Supreme Court justices aren't 'scorpions,' but not happy campers either

8:39am January 18, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments. But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.

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National

Encore: Civil rights activists say we've been here before in fight over voting rights

6:41pm January 17, 2022

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with civil rights activists about what it was like to fight for the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s — and the rights that are in jeopardy now.

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Florida hospitals caught in limbo over differing federal and state vaccine mandates

5:38pm January 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, about how the state's hospitals are navigating the Supreme Court's decision on vaccine mandates.

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Laura Coates teaches law at George Washington University Law School and is a senior analyst for CNN. She also hosts The Laura Coates Show, on radio SiriusXM's Urban View.

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Attorney Laura Coates has witnessed the dissolution of voting rights first hand

7:00am January 17, 2022

by Terry Gross

While working for the Department of Justice, Coates says she saw voter rolls being purged and instances where polling places were moved to known Klan locations. Her new memoir is Just Pursuit.

National

Illinois judge is reassigned after overturning sexual assault conviction

6:22pm January 16, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Judge Robert Adrian overturned the conviction of an 18-year-old for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. After outrage, Adrian was removed from the criminal case docket.

National

Alec Baldwin surrenders his phone to shooting investigators

1:55pm January 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The actor has turned his cellphone over to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official says.

In Cleveland, Ohio, about 8,000 city employees — including the police and fire departments — are affected by the Kronos outage.

Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers — including hospitals

7:35am January 15, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Hundreds, if not thousands, of workers have missed out on overtime and holiday pay in recent weeks. In Cleveland, city administrators set up a "war room" to deal with the paycheck backlog.

Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is set to be released a little more than 39 months after being sent to prison for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.

National

Ex-Chicago cop who killed Laquan McDonald will be released from prison early

7:11pm January 14, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke will be released from prison on Feb. 3, according to reports.

A federal judge on Friday ordered Martin Shkreli, seen here in 2016, to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped from inflating the price of the lifesaving drug Daraprim and barred him from participating in the pharmaceutical indus

Health & Safety

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli is ordered to return $64M, barred from drug industry

5:19pm January 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Martin Shkreli, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud, must return profits he and his former company reaped from raising the price of a lifesaving drug, a federal judge ruled.

Mosby has faced previous inquiries into her actions and work as the city's top prosecutor since she hit national prominence in 2015 with the Freddie Gray case.

Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby denies federal charges over her finances

4:47pm January 14, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Mosby reached national prominence in 2015 as the top prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.