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Nina Totenbergis an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radiofocusing primarily on the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR’s news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
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Nina Totenbergis an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radiofocusing primarily on the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR’s news magazines 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.
She is considered one of NPR’s “Founding Mothers,” along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and the late Cokie Roberts. Newsweek magazine called her “the creme de la creme” of NPR, and 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 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. In 1977, she reported on secret Supreme Court deliberations relating to the Watergate scandal.
3 Quotes by Nina Totenberg
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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina TotenbergAmerican journalist
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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.
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Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
Nina TotenbergAmerican journalist