One of This Year’s Biggest Abortion Votes Is at Risk
Abortion rights supporters celebrated turning in more than 380,000 signatures to overturn the state’s ban on the procedure in May.Kacen Bayless/The Kansas City Star/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday night, a Missouri judge handed down a ruling that could threaten voters’…
Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider the verdict in your defamation case, you probably shouldn’t repeat similarly defamatory statements during a press…
Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024.Stefan Jeremiah/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday that he won’t sentence the former president until November 26. Juan Merchan, who Trump has relentlessly…
Elon Musk’s Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups
Mother Jones; Marc Piasecki/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lawyers representing Elon Musk and X, previously known as Twitter, have quietly begun sending subpoenas to a host of public interest groups, Mother Jones has learned. Most of the targeted organizations have signed open…
The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 19, Staci Lindberg, the elected clerk of Nevada’s Lyon County, was hit with some unsettling news: She was being sued for the first time in her life. The plaintiff? Her own political party. The Republican National Committee had…
Will Ohio Strike Down Its Draconian Gender-Affirming Care Ban?
A transgender rights advocate holds a sign outside the Ohio Statehouse during a protest against a bill to ban trans girls and women from playing women’s sports. Stephen Zenner/SOPA/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The fate of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in…