美国国家公共电台 NPR The Curious Case Of A Florida Man Who Called Politicians Corrupt, Got Thrown In Jail

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A case before the Supreme Court today could parse when it's OK to put limits on free speech. It started when a man who went to a city council meeting in Florida complained about local politicians and got arrested for it. His name

美国国家公共电台 NPR O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some secrets are so well-kept that even family members don't know them. So it is with the story of two Supreme Court justices and a proposal of marriage. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg has the story. NINA TOTENBER

美国国家公共电台 NPR Cranberry Relish: The NPR Recipe That Divides Thanksgiving Tables

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Year after year, there are certain ways you know Thanksgiving is approaching. Election time has more or less passed. High school football is finishing up. College football is closing in on bowl season. You're debating people abou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Supreme Court To Open A Whirlwind Term

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The U.S. Supreme Court starts a new term today with some major cases on a raft of controversial issues - partisan gerrymandering, privacy in the age of technology, sports wagering, gay rights and many more cases. NPR legal affairs

美国国家公共电台 NPR Should Polling Places Remain Politics-Free? Justices Incredulous At Both Sides

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Every state has a law mandating these buffer zones outside polling places where there can't be any campaigning at all, and these are laws the Supreme Court has long upheld. And today, the court is tackling similar, maybe even stri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Judge Gorsuch's Writings Signal He Would Be A Conservative On Social Issues

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing next week. For more than 10 years as a federal appeals court judge, Neil Gorsuch has been writing judicial

美国国家公共电台 NPR Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers' Rights

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a sweeping victory to American business and an equally sweeping defeat to American workers. The court gave the green light to employers who want to bar their workers from bringing class-acti

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Jersey Takes On Major Professional Sports Leagues In Sports Betting Case

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The federal ban on sports betting is tested before the Supreme Court today. Now, we do not know the odds in Vegas on how this case will turn out, but we do know that the United States prohibits sports betting in most states. The

美国国家公共电台 NPR Do You Have The Right To Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. Today the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that involves a pretty surprising plot twist. The lawyer for the defendant in a brutal triple-murder case told the jurors that the accused, his client, was guilty. Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justices Appear Skeptical Of Calif. Law Challenged By Anti-Abortion Centers

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear arguments today in a major First Amendment case that involves abortion. On one side are self-identified crisis pregnancy centers that seek to prevent abortions. And on the other side is the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Frustrated Supreme Court Looks For A Solution To Partisan Gerrymandering

NOEL KING, HOST: The curtain rises today on Act 2 of extreme partisan gerrymandering, a play in three acts currently onstage at the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg updates the plotline of the biggest legal controv

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Americans are used to the hurly-burly of political and legal debate. But historically, presidents have been careful not to criticize individual judges or their motives. Of course, President Trump has broken with a lot of institutio

美国国家公共电台 NPR Supreme Court To Decide If Mexican Nationals May Sue For Border Shooting

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In 2010, a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old boy who was standing on the Mexican side of the border. Between 2005 and 2013, there were 42 of these cross-border shooting deaths. Today, the U.S. Suprem

美国国家公共电台 NPR Supreme Court Ruling Means Some Online Purchases Will Cost More

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Online sales are about to start costing more. The Supreme Court ruled today that states can force retailers to collect and remit sales taxes on out-of-state purchases. The 5-to-4 decision reverses decades-old decisions. Those

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senators Grill Trump Judicial Nominees On Provocative Blog Posts

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are more than 130 vacancies on the U.S. federal courts. And now, President Trump has started to fill some of those jobs. The number is unusually large because in the last years of the Obama administration, Republicans block

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Quiet Man': The Powerful Conservative White House Lawyer In The Middle Of It All

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Fairly or unfairly, the specter of the Watergate scandal increasingly hangs over the Trump administration. The parallels have been spurred by a drumbeat of events, among them the firing of the FBI director, the apparent attempt t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Trump About To Be Able To Say 'You're Fired' To A Lot More People?

NOEL KING, HOST: Could the president hire and fire civil servants at will? That question is at the heart of a concept that's likely to come up often at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings this fall. NPR's legal affairs corre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings To Focus On 6 Hot-Button Issues

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has begun dramatically. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AMY KLOBUCHAR: We believe this hearing should be postponed. CHUCK GRASSLEY: I know this is an exciting day for a

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Quiet Rage Of Mazie Hirono

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Senate plans a different sort of summer. Instead of going home this August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell canceled the recess, says he wants to approve more of President Trump's judicial nominees, who face Democratic

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senate Democrats In Political Quagmire Over Supreme Court Nomination

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here in Washington, the conventional wisdom is that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will be easily confirmed. But if 2016 proved anything, it's that conventional wisdom is not always accurate. So Senate Democrats find themselv