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Steve Bannon Swaps His Podcast Studio for a Prison Cell

Steve Bannon at the 2023 CPAC conference, in National Harbor, Maryland.Mark Peterson/Redux Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It was a Tuesday morning in May and the mood on War Room, Steve Bannon’s twice-daily talk show, was characteristically grim. “The pre-kinetic part of the…

“The President Is Now a King”: The Most Blistering Lines From Dissents in the Trump Immunity Case

Mother Jones; Carolyn Kaster/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In response to the Supreme Court’s momentous decision ruling that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for “official” acts, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued blistering dissents. They blasted the reasoning…

The Supreme Court Just Put Trump Above the Law

Justin Lane/Pool/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that presidents have broad criminal immunity for official acts, effectively placing the presidency beyond the reach of criminal law for the first time in the country’s history. The 6-3 decision…