Kyle Rittenhouse Was a Minor. Prosecuting Him as One May Have Been Better.
Kyle Rittenhouse broke down describing the events leading up to the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum as he testified at during his trial in Kenosha, Wisc., Circuit Court. Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On November 10, three days into his trial,…
Restorative Justice Won’t Work Without This Crucial Piece
Martin Barraud/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Cook County Associate Judge Stuart Katz wanted to try something completely different. The Illinois juvenile court judge was sick of the usual options: locking up young people or sentencing them to community service. More…
Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Early one May morning, I escaped Tucson’s unrelenting grid and drove south through Pima County on Arizona’s state Route 83, into the heart of the Madrean Sky Islands, an almost mythical landscape of shadowy, isolated peaks where…
Illinois Becomes the First State to Block Cops from Lying to Kids
Rose Palmisano/OC Register/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, Illinois became the first state in the nation to make it illegal for police officers to lie to children during interrogations. The new law signed this week by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker…
Allen Weisselberg Escapes Questioning in Inauguration Scandal Case—for Now
Allen Weisselberg departs Manhattan criminal court on July 1.John Minchillo/A Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Allen Weisselberg is lucky. Certainly not because he and the Trump Organization, where he has served as chief financial officer for three decades, were indicted by the Manhattan…
Under Trump, Presidents Got More Power to Fire Agency Heads. Biden Just Used It.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, Joe Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump administration appointee who had clashed with congressional Democrats and disability rights activists. Originally appointed by Donald Trump in 2018, Saul’s term was set…