Cory Booker Says SCOTUS Needs to “Use This Thomas Affair” to Change Its Ethics Rules
The Washington Post via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Reactions to a series of text messages from GOP activist and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni Thomas to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning…
Report: Mark Meadows Registered to Vote Somewhere He Might Not Have Lived
Former Donald Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. In his memoir, The Chief’s Chief, published almost a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, Mark Meadows voiced concern about voter fraud, heavily implying that it had…
Guilty: Jury Convicts Insurrectionist in First January 6 Trial
Courtroom sketch of Guy Wesley Reffitt, joined by his lawyer William Welch, right, in federal court, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022Dana Verkouteren/San Francisco Chronicle via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The first criminal trial of a January 6 insurrectionist has…
The January 6 Committee Subpoenaed Roger Stone’s Phone Records
Roger Stone speaking in Washington on January 5, 2021.Caroline Brehman/CQ via ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone said Thursday that he is suing the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on Congress after learning that…
The Big Lie Is Tearing Wisconsin’s GOP Apart
State Rep. Timothy Ramthun listens to Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address in February.Andy Manis/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Even if most Republicans still think Donald Trump was the real winner of the 2020 presidential race, they seem, by…
Trump Declares Support for January 6 Insurrectionists
Trump speaks at a rally, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe, Texas.Jason Fochtman/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a speech at a rally in Texas on Saturday, Donald Trump further escalated his efforts to whitewash the horrific assault on the US Capitol…