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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A pretrial hearing is taking place Tuesday in Miami for the federal case about former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
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The FBI director faced heated questions from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, who assailed the bureau for that they said are politically-motivated investigations.
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The former president foreshadowed some of the legal challenges he will mount against the unprecedented federal criminal case against him. -
Special counsel Jack Smith has spent more than $5 million so far on his twin investigations that circle former President Trump. -
Federal authorities also charged Biden, the surviving son of the president, with a felony firearm offense.
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The president's son agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. He's also charged with a felony firearm offense, for which he agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement. -
Former President Donald Trump will surrender to federal authorities and appear in court at 3 p.m. Trump says he is innocent and is being unfairly targeted by because he's running for president again.
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The former president was ordered not to speak to any witnesses, including his aide Walt Nauta, who was also indicted for concealing documents and making false statements. -
The Justice Department has unsealed an indictment against former President Donald Trump and one of his aides, charging Trump with unlawfully retaining government secrets and obstruction.
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Donald Trump has become the first former president to be indicted by the federal government that he once led. Trump faces seven charges in the probe of documents found at his Florida estate.
