Los Angeles’ New District Attorney Eliminated Cash Bail. Judges and Prosecutors Are Pushing Back.
A Los Angeles bail bonds company across from street from the Men’s Central Jail.Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times/ Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In early December, when George Gascón was sworn in as Los…
Could Rudy Giuliani Face a Perjury Charge?
Mike Mulholland/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On December 14, Rudy Giuliani Zoomed into a Missouri legislative hearing. His testimony was part of his endless roadshow to overturn the election, and, as he has done so often…
Here’s What It’s Like to Be a Staunch Democrat in a Deep Red Georgia County
Mother Jones illustration; TheMillCreek/Wikipedia Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Andrea Baerwalde is the interim chair of the Democrats of Paulding County, Georgia, a subdivision-filled exurb about an hour northwest of Atlanta. Baerwalde and the other Democrats…
Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
President Donald Trump on the golf course on November 26.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Wednesday, as the United States hit new records for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and…
“Voting Is Life or Death”: How Georgia Democrats Are Organizing in One of the Earliest COVID Hotspots
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“People here lost a lot of people,” Amna Farooqi tells me, “and it was kind of like, shock after shock after shock.” The 26-year-old political organizer…
Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Begs GOP to “Call This Stuff Out and End It”
Chris Krebs.Jim Loscalzo/CNP via Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Wednesday, the day after the Electoral College selected Joe Biden as the country’s next president, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) chaired a hearing of the Senate…