The Supreme Court Heard a Landmark LGBTQ Labor Rights Case, But it Was Preoccupied With…Bathrooms
Gerry Broome/AP On Tuesday, lawyers representing a transgender woman and two gay men convened before the Supreme Court to argue that their clients should not have been fired from their jobs because of their identities. The lawyers argued that gender identity and sexual orientation are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the…
Trump Announces Plan to Unconditionally Stonewall Congress
Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA The White House has made it official: they are going to stonewall every congressional subpoena for anything and everything. In a way, I suppose that’s not surprising. What is surprising—a little bit, I guess—is that they’ve announced their intentions via a letter from the White House counsel that reads like a…
Trump’s Brutal Border Policy Is Even More Terrifying for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro places flowers on the wooden markers of people who have died crossing the Rio Grande during his trip to Matamoros, Mexico, on Monday.Denise Cathey/AP At the foot of a bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, roughly 1,000 migrants are sleeping in tents in a squalid, makeshift refugee camp. On Thursday, Mayela, the…
Here’s Another Impeachable Offense: Trump’s War on the Constitution
Mother Jones illustration; Getty, Drew Angerer/Getty Resolved, the president of the United States ought to be impeached for “interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation…and Congressional Committees.” That’s a line from the first article of impeachment against Richard…
Women All Over the Country Are Suing Police for Failing to Test Their Rape Kits
Carolyn Cole/Getty Sometime after 2 a.m. in a dark exam room at the San Francisco General Hospital, a sexual assault nurse examiner turned on a handheld blacklight. Heather Marlowe looked down at her body. Her stomach and thighs were glowing. The nurse took swabs, and reassured her that when police analyzed her rape kit, they…
Senate Republicans Say Russia Helped Trump—and Is Still Messing in US Elections
Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee has found that the Kremlin directed a social media campaign in advance of the 2016 elections that “overtly and almost invariably” aimed to help Donald Trump—and that it is still at it. In a report released Tuesday, the committee endorsed an Intelligence Community assessment issued…