Donald Trump’s Top Financial Lieutenant Surrenders to Manhattan DA
Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, stands behind the Trump at a 2017 press conference in Trump Tower.Evan Vucci/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.Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s…
Trump Went on an Execution Spree. Biden Can Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen Again.
Susan Walsh/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.The white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 is in the news again. Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death by the federal…
Chauvin’s Lawyer Uses the “Everything but the Knee” Defense
Court TV Pool/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.On Wednesday, in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer accused of murder, a defense witness introduced a brand new theory of what killed George…
“VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s Reformist DA
Mother Jones illustration; Jeff Chiu/AP; Getty 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.San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was at home cooking dinner on a Thursday evening in January when he opened a new app called Clubhouse…
California Will No Longer Jail People Just Because They’re Poor
“No person should lose the right to liberty simply because [they] can’t afford to post bail,” the California Supreme Court ruled today.Shutterstock 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.In a ruling likely to transform the bail system…
Are Life Sentences a Merciful Alternative to the Death Penalty?
Solitary confinement cell in New YorkBebeto Matthews/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.Once considered the death penalty capital of the United States, throughout its history Virginia has carried out more executions than any other state. Since…