Does Justice Brett Kavanaugh Think Trump Can Be Prosecuted?
Mother Jones; Olivier Douliery/ABACA/Sipa/AP; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a case brought by voters in Colorado seeking to bounce former President Donald Trump from the state ballot on the grounds that he engaged in…
Tonight, Republicans Will Conduct Their Dream Election: One Where Hardly Anyone Can Vote
Trump in Nevada, July 2023.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thanks to a new law, Nevada residents seeking to cast a ballot in the Democratic or Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday were able to vote early, vote by mail, show up and use…
Chris LaCivita Ran One of American Politics’ Most Notorious Smear Campaigns. Now He’s Working For Trump.
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When he ran for president in 2004, Democrats were counting on Sen. John Kerry’s military service to define him as a strong leader after 2001’s terrorist attack and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The…
Donald Trump’s Energy Plans “Potentially Disastrous” for the Climate
Andrew Harnik/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even…
Here Are the Best Lines in the Court Decision Blasting Trump’s Immunity Claim
Mother Jones illustration; Yuri Gripas/Abaca/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, told Donald Trump to get lost. That is, it rejected his claim that as a former president he has total immunity for actions he…
A GOP Senate Candidate Blames “Liberal” Judges for His Labor Violations. Just One Problem With That.
Mother Jones illustration; Joe Maiorana/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bernie Moreno, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, focuses his campaign on a central theme. “All public policy priorities in America should revolve around a simple concept: what is good…