It Took Nearly 50 Years, But New York Finally Just Decriminalized Abortion
A demonstrator holds up a banner saying “Keep Abortion Legal” in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City, on January 20, 2018. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, pro-choice activists have pushed to reform abortion access in one of the country’s…
This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma
Mother Jones illustration; Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy didn’t say he was innocent. In the summer of 1999, when Murphy, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastern Oklahoma, killed his girlfriend’s ex-lover, also a Creek member, slashing his throat and cutting off his…
What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg places some items in her bag before speaking at Georgetown Law School, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the Basis of Sex, a feature film on the pioneering legal work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
President Donald Trump Defends Justice Kavanaugh: He Was “Proven Innocent”
President Donald Trump with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, speaks before a ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday night, two days after a sharply divided Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanagh to the Supreme Court despite…
Susan Collins Finds the “One Silver Lining” of the Kavanaugh Debacle
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After casting one of two decisive votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Sunday that she hopes more women will now be inspired to press sexual assault charges against…
Kellyanne Conway Just Claimed the Media Wants “Every Woman to Be a Victim”
Patsy Lynch/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed this morning “many people,” including journalists and senators, “want” women to be victims of sexual violence. “They want every woman to be a victim, every woman to lock arms with every other woman; every man is a perpetrator,” she…