The Supreme Court Just Struck Down Biden’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt
Mother Jones; Allison Bailey/SOPA/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court struck down on Friday the Biden administration’s plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student loans for about 40 million Americans. The plan, announced last August, would have canceled…
The Supreme Court Allows Discrimination Against LGBTQ People
Mother Jones; Patsy Lynch/IPX/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Friday allowed certain businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, creating a large loophole in federal and state civil rights laws that have protected Americans for decades. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the…
Climate Change May Leave Island Nations Stateless
The island nation of Tuvalu.INABA Tomoaki/Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.…
Trump’s New Defamation Suit Against E. Jean Carroll Is a Silencing Tactic
Mother Jones; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s yearslong court battle to hold the man who sexually abused her legally accountable has been extraordinary in many ways. First, because that abuser is former President Donald Trump, who…
SCOTUS OKs Affirmative Action—if It Helps Black Americans Get in “the Bunker, Not the Boardroom”
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday morning, the decades-long conservative crusade to upend affirmative action proved successful. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race-conscious admissions, finding such programs at the University of North Carolina and…
Did Justice Jackson Sneak a Loophole into the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ban?
Jacqueline Martin/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court’s conservative majority banned race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities on Thursday, ruling that using race as an admissions factor violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause. The decision invalidates the University of North Carolina…