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News Articles: Law

President Trump said he is looking at five potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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  • Politics

Trump Says He Plans To Announce Supreme Court Pick 'Probably Saturday'

The president said he is looking at five potential nominees to fill the seat left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

September 21, 2020
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By:
  • Brian Naylor
The site of James Scurlock's shooting death in Omaha, Neb., is still being preserved as a memorial in mid-September. Last Tuesday, a grand jury indicted Jake Gardner in the killing, handing down four criminal counts, including manslaughter.

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  • National

Omaha Bar Owner Has Died By Suicide After He Was Charged In Shooting Of Black Man

Jake Gardner was on the West Coast when a grand jury indicted him last week for the May killing of James Scurlock in Omaha, Neb. Gardner died "at his own hand," his lawyers said Sunday.

September 21, 2020
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  • Brakkton Booker and
  • Kirk Siegler
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Former Senators On Filling Ginsburg's Seat At The Supreme Court

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with former Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., about the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

September 21, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Is It Possible To Expand The Supreme Court?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Judge Glock, a senior policy adviser for the Cicero Institute, about the history of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court.

September 21, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Two women pray in Louisville, Ky., in early June near the intersection where David McAtee was killed. Louisville police say video obtained from security cameras at McAtee's barbecue restaurant and an adjoining business show that McAtee fired a gun as police and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew approached his business.

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  • Race

Family Of Man Killed By National Guard In Louisville Files Wrongful Death Suit

David "Ya Ya" McAtee was killed in June as he stood in the doorway of the barbecue stand he owned in the Kentucky city's West End.

September 21, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Jeffrey Toobin On 'Tough As Nails' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Toobin spoke to Fresh Air in 2013 about his New Yorker profile of Ginsburg, written as she marked her 20th anniversary on the Supreme Court. Ginsburg died Sept. 18 at the age of 87.

September 21, 2020
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  • Terry Gross
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about the future of the Supreme Court on Sunday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

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  • Politics

If Republicans Confirm New Justice, Scholars Say Democratic Court Packing Is Possible

Some Democrats are open to packing the Supreme Court in response to what they perceive as an illegitimate court appointment. But the move could cause a "spiral" of retaliation, experts say.

September 21, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Crowds gather Saturday at the Supreme Court to honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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  • Law

Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Lie In Repose At Supreme Court This Week For Public Viewing

The justice, who died last Friday, will be buried Sept. 29 at Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband of 56 years, Marty Ginsburg.

September 21, 2020
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  • Nina Totenberg
GPB News NPR

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  • Pop Culture

RBG Wasn't Just A Supreme Court Justice. She Was A Pop Icon Too

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took on a second life as a pop culture icon complete with a Saturday Night Live caricature. People were enraptured with her accessories, health, diet and exercise regimen.

September 21, 2020
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  • Andrew Limbong
Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander speaks at a Senate hearing Wednesday.

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  • Politics

Retiring Tennessee Senator Says He Supports Court Nomination This Year

There had been speculation about whether retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander would break with party leaders and call for a delay until after the election.

September 21, 2020
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  • Alana Wise
A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration's order that would have banned Chinese-owned app WeChat, which millions in the U.S. use to stay in touch with family and friends and conduct business in China

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  • Technology

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's U.S. WeChat Ban

A judge in San Francisco said Trump's order targeting the popular Chinese-owned app has a "modest" basis in national security and represents a free speech violation for U.S. users of the app.

September 21, 2020
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  • Bobby Allyn
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Trump To Name His Pick For Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat

President Trump and Senate Republicans appear determined to get a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before the November election. Democrats are vowing to stop that from happening.

September 21, 2020
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  • Mara Liasson and
  • Susan Davis
Tamika Palmer spoke at the March on Washington last month at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. At left is Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, and at right is the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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  • National

Breonna Taylor's Mother: 'I Won't Go Away. I'll Still Fight'

Tamika Palmer says she wants the officers who killed her daughter to be charged. "Even in the very beginning of this year, she kept saying 2020 was her year," she said. "And she was absolutely right."

September 21, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
People in Macon attend a vigil honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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  • News

Macon Remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'She Fought For All Of Us'

Around 40 people showed up Saturday night for a candlelight vigil in front of the federal courthouse in Macon. They were there to honor late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died Friday night at the age of 87.

September 21, 2020
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  • Josephine Bennett
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Should The Next Supreme Court Justice Be Nominated Before The Election?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Adam White, a legal scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, about what GOP Senators must weigh before voting on the next Supreme Court nominee.

September 21, 2020
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