The Supreme Court Upholds a Law Disarming Domestic Abusers
Mother Jones; Getty; Ian Hutchinson/Unsplash; Eric Ward/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Every 16 hours in the US, a woman is gunned down in an act of domestic violence. Nearly 1 million American women have been shot or shot at by a current…
Exclusive: DNC moves ahead on all-virtual roll call for Biden presidential nomination
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 18: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at an event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the East Room at the White House on June 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden announced a new program that will provide protections for undocumented immigrants married to…
U.S. Supreme Court upholds law that prevents domestic abusers from owning guns
A customer tries out a semi-automatic pistol at The Gun Store on Nov. 14, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday upheld a federal law that bars people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning a firearm. In an 8-1 decision on United States v. Rahimi,…
Congress silenced free speech in TikTok law, platform tells federal court
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew takes questions from Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images TikTok and its parent company argued Thursday in a federal court in the District of Columbia that…
DOJ: State of Alaska Discriminates Against Voters With Disabilities
Residents in Anchorage, Alaska wait to vote.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, the US Department of Justice sent a letter to Alaska’s director of elections, outlining the state’s litany of violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that impacted disabled…
About That IVF “Alternative” GOP Senators Are Trying to Fund
A doctor fertilizes a woman’s eggs. (Photo by Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would designate federal funds for “Restorative Reproductive Medicine,” a loose group of therapies meant to help treat infertility without…