The Supreme Court Is About to Have a Very Busy Week
US Supreme Court justices arrive for the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Monday marks the…
Trump Could Use the 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Nationwide. Here’s How.
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, in a bid to clarify his historically nebulous stance on abortion, Donald Trump said that if reelected, he intends to leave abortion rights “to the states,” seemingly contradicting his prior stance in favor of…
SCOTUS Justices: Why Isn’t DOJ Treating Dobbs Protesters Like January 6 Attackers?
Eric Lee/ZUMA; mpi34/MediaPunch /IPX Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned the Justice Department’s use of a 2002 statute against obstructing an official proceeding to prosecute a number of people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. In…
Trump’s Trial Marks the Return of “Individual-1”
Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial.Michael Nagle/Pool/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The justice system finally caught up with Individual-1—a.k.a. Donald J. Trump. On the opening day of Trump’s…
Donald Trump’s Historic Hush-Money Trial Finally Begins
The hush money trial of former President Trump begins Monday with jury selection.Jeenah Moon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.So, here we are. The first day of the first criminal trial of a former US president. Can it get more extraordinary than that? “He keeps…
Kamala Harris Isn’t Letting Trump Dodge on Abortion
Kamala Harris speaks on reproductive freedom at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 12.Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Days after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban on abortion could be enforced in the state, Kamala…