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,…
A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Joyce Faye Nelson-Crockett was 13 years old in 1955, dancing to a jukebox in the Hughes Cafe on a Saturday night in East Texas with her sister and her 16-year-old cousin, John Earl Reese. The boy had…
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…
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…
An Indictment of the Trump Organization Is an Indictment of Donald Trump
zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.After Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance indicted the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg for tax fraud on Thursday, supporters of Donald Trump took pains to…
Read the Indictment Against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg
The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg appears in court in New York.Seth Wenig/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Former president Donald Trump’s company and top corporate lieutenant Allen Weisselberg were indicted Thursday afternoon in…