Nina Totenberg
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"Nina Totenberg" is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. From 1992 to 2013, she was also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.

Newsweek magazine called her "the creme de la creme" of NPR, and Vanity Fair (magazine)/Vanity Fair refers to her as "Queen of the Leaks". She has won many broadcast journalism awards for both her explanatory pieces and her scoops.

Among her scoops was her groundbreaking report of sexual harassment allegations made against Clarence Thomas by University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, leading the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination/Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Previously, in 1986, she broke the story that Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg had smoked marijuana, leading Ginsburg to withdraw his name. And in 1977, she reported on secret Supreme Court deliberations relating to the Watergate scandal.

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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Makes you wonder just a little bit.