Trump’s support of Florida marijuana legalization may show growing bipartisan consensus
Tim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary, shows marijuana plant buds on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s early Monday statement that he would vote to legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida sent a strong signal that both major parties are moving to adopt…
One of This Year’s Biggest Abortion Votes Is at Risk
Abortion rights supporters celebrated turning in more than 380,000 signatures to overturn the state’s ban on the procedure in May.Kacen Bayless/The Kansas City Star/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday night, a Missouri judge handed down a ruling that could threaten voters’…
Kamala Harris Is Winning the Fundraising Race by a Mile
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August—a stunning number on its own, but particularly impressive as it nearly tripled the mere $130 million that Donald Trump raised for the…
Trump and Vance Have No Plan to Fix One of America’s Biggest Crises
Matt York/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Conservative opposition to social safety nets is nothing new. But, as daycare costs continue to soar and the US Surgeon General warns that parents are dangerously overwhelmed, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appear to…
Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider the verdict in your defamation case, you probably shouldn’t repeat similarly defamatory statements during a press…
Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024.Stefan Jeremiah/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday that he won’t sentence the former president until November 26. Juan Merchan, who Trump has relentlessly…