Carrie Johnson is NPR's National Justice Correspondent.
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. Johnson regularly appears on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to coming to NPR in 2010, Johnson worked at the Washington Post for 10 years. 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, and SABEW. She served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University from 2019-2020. In 2021, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers honored Johnson with a rarely-bestowed Champion of Justice award for her journalism work.
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. She sits on the advisory board for the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-M and the Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit.
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President Trump is pushing the boundaries of executive power to limit transparency within the executive branch. Congressional Democrats are grappling...
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A judge has granted the Justice Department's bid to drop a landmark case against leaders of the Oath Keepers, as... -
The Justice Department is turning to a never before used court to try to deport a woman accused of pledging...
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The Justice Department is turning to a never-before-used court to try to deport a woman accused of pledging allegiance to...
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Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court in 1996 to make it easier for the Justice Department to use classified... -
Former FBI Director Jim Comey is asking a judge to throw out his criminal threats case, arguing he's being singled...
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The former special counsel led two criminal investigations of President Trump and has been a frequent target of Trump's ire... -
President Trump's nominee to lead the Justice Department got a grilling from lawmakers who questioned his close ties to President...
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Descendants of Dred Scott and Chief Justice Roger Taney spoke about reconciliation at a church in the shadow of the... -
Descendants of Dred Scott and Chief Justice Roger Taney spoke about reconciliation at a church in the shadow of the...
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On its final day of its term, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump's executive order that tried to limit birthright...
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A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump's executive order.