Raw Data: Police Shootings of Unarmed Men
According to the Washington Post database, here is the trend in police shootings of unarmed men over the past six years: Anything above zero is too high, but it does look like we’ve made some progress since Ferguson. I can only guess at the underlying reason, but I imagine that pressure from Black Lives Matter…
The 3 Best Lines in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s DACA Concurrence
Paul Marotta/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, joined his liberal colleagues on Thursday to preserve a program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to remain in the country, handing a significant victory to hundreds of thousands…
Supreme Court Rules That Dreamers Can Stay
David Swanson/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Oh man: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may not immediately proceed with its plan to end a program protecting about 700,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers from deportation. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the…
Let’s Make Traffic Stops Into Just Traffic Stops
In this era of ubiquitous cellphone video, it’s encouraging that police killings of Black men are finally getting the attention they deserve. But there’s a parallel problem behind the videos that make the headlines. Police shootings have been widely studied and the studies mostly point in the same direction: Black men are stopped at a…
Say It Under Oath, Asshole
John Bolton on August 29, 2019, Minsk, Belarus.Yuri Oreshkin/TASS via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last October, President Donald Trump said, on television, that “China should start an investigation into the Bidens” and reiterated his previously private push for Ukraine to investigate the former vice…
Long Voter Lines in LA Were Caused By . . . A Tablet
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.We have finally figured out why voters had to wait for hours in Los Angeles during the recent election. It had nothing to do with the voting machines, but with the electronic tablets that replaced paper lists of voters for poll workers…