Transgender sports and bathroom rules targeted in waning days of Georgia 2024 legislative session
A pro-trans crowd gathers at the Georgia Capitol ahead of a Senate vote on an anti-trans bill. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Transgender Georgians and supporters gathered in downtown Atlanta Tuesday to mark the second annual transgender liberation day at the state Capitol, hours before the state Senate passed legislation on party lines banning transgender children from…
Ken Paxton Is Going to Take Some Classes on How to Be More Ethical
Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, nine years after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted for securities fraud, and just a few weeks before he was finally set to go on trial, prosecutors struck a deal…
Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”
Mother Jones illustration; Eric Lee/CNP/ZUMA; Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the…
Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion
Abortion rights activists rally outside the court on March 26.Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices…
Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions…
Legislature sends proposed law to governor’s desk to assure Georgia renters livable homes
Dalton Republican Rep. Kasey Carpenter sponsored a bill that create new protections for Georgia renters. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (file photo) A proposal to increase protections for Georgia renters is now in the governor’s hands after receiving a final vote in the House Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Dalton Republican Rep. Kasey Carpenter, sailed through the…