Carrie Johnson
Carrie Johnson is a justice correspondent for the Washington Desk.
She covers a wide variety of stories about justice issues, law enforcement, and legal affairs for NPR's flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as the newscasts and NPR.org.
Johnson has chronicled major challenges to the landmark voting rights law, a botched law enforcement operation targeting gun traffickers along the Southwest border, and the Obama administration's deadly drone program for suspected terrorists overseas.
Prior to coming to NPR in 2010, Johnson worked at the Washington Post for 10 years, where she closely observed the FBI, the Justice Department, and criminal trials of the former leaders of Enron, HealthSouth, and Tyco. Earlier in her career, she wrote about courts for the weekly publication Legal Times.
Her work has been honored with awards from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, the Society for Professional Journalists, SABEW, and the National Juvenile Defender Center. She has been a finalist for the Loeb Award for financial journalism and for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for team coverage of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
Johnson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Benedictine University in Illinois.
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Legal experts are calling on Congress to put new restrictions on a president's power to deploy troops on American soil.
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Scott Detrow speaks with NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson and WABE political reporter Sam Gringlas about the fallout surrounding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
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While the justices came together to agree Donald Trump could not be removed from the Colorado primary ballot, they differed as to how far they would go. -
The order from the court on Wednesday keeps Trump's prosecution in the Jan. 6 case on hold.
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These cases raise a critical question for the First Amendment and the future of social media: whether states can force the platforms to carry content they find hateful or objectionable. -
Does free speech include the right to force social media companies to publish hate speech? The Supreme Court considers bids by Florida and Texas to impose their own rules on the internet.
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Supreme Court justices heard arguments in an important environmental case. Lawyers for a group of red states and businesses are trying to block a federal rule designed to limit ozone pollution.
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A key environmental effort to improve air quality and protect people from downwind pollution faces a legal challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court from several states and energy companies .
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The justices will consider whether to hit pause on a federal rule designed to reduce air pollution that drifts across states and can cause health troubles. -
Last week, three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected Trump's bid for blanket immunity over acts he allegedly committed while in the White House.
