Carrie Johnson
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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Former President Donald Trump has talked about using the military and the Department of Justice to go after those he sees as disloyal, raising concerns about American democracy and civil rights.
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A new trove of letters and oral histories is shining a light on the successes and challenges of jailhouse lawyers: people in prison who help themselves and others navigate the legal system.
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The Justice Department, in a new court filing, says former President Donald Trump needs to stand trial for alleged election interference just like any other citizen.
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Prosecutors provided the most detailed look yet at their election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
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The Justice Department's third-in-command talked about the department's pledge to fight hate crimes, and shared he was close in age to Matthew Shepard, whose death inspired a federal law helping to prosecute people fueled by hate.
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The Justice Department unveiled criminal charges against three Iranian hackers who allegedly compromised Trump campaign accounts and sought to erode confidence in the U.S. election.
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The attorney general pledged to restore the Justice Department to normal order. It hasn't been easy, and may not last.
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Crime is a perennial issue in presidential campaigns, but experts say public perceptions of safety and justice are much different today than 30 years ago.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a rare address to public servants, urging them to hold the line amidst political attacks on their work.
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In a hearing marked by moments of tension and humor, Trump and Justice Department lawyers clashed over how the federal election interference case against the former president should proceed.