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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President Trump wants to be able to fire far more executive branch employees at will — upending checks on presidential power that have existed for more than a century. -
Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all colleagues again. -
Three fired former FBI agents have sued the Bureau and the Trump administration. They accuse the FBI's leaders of carrying out a campaign of retribution.
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The lawsuit from three senior and lauded FBI agents at the bureau says the Trump administration demanded loyalty for those staying at the bureau. -
Grand jurors in Washington, D.C., have refused to indict at least a half-dozen people since federal agents and National Guard members spanned across the city.
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Veterans of the FBI are demanding answers after more senior executives left the bureau recently without a clear explanation for their termination.
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The District of Columbia sued the federal government in a clash over home rule as the Justice Department moved to install a new city police leader.
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The Justice Department has sued the entire federal bench in Maryland over a dispute related to deportations. Both sides are due in court in Baltimore for a hearing on Wednesday.
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The Justice Department is ramping up investigations into New York's attorney general and other frequent targets of President Trump, as it fires longtime FBI officials.
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Federal judges rarely speak outside of their rulings in court. But now many are publicly warning about threats they face this year after ruling against the Trump administration.
