FBI Seizes Oath Keeper Lawyer’s Phone in “Seditious Conspiracy” Investigation
The US Capitol on January 6, 2021John Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The FBI is investigating “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a search warrant served Tuesday night on a lawyer for…
The Justice Department Won’t Investigate COVID Deaths in New York Nursing Homes
Joe Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Over the last six months, government officials and journalists have surfaced damning information that suggests New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration attempted to diminish the true pandemic death toll in the state’s nursing homes. State attorney general…
How Merrick Garland Acts Like Donald Trump’s Lawyer
Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on June 9, 2021.Susan Walsh/CNP via ZUMA Wire 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.Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department is defending many of the polices…
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…
Abbe Lowell Is the Go-To Lawyer for Embattled Politicians. Now He Faces a Controversy of His Own.
Abbe Lowell attending the September 1, 2018, funeral of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call 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.Abbe Lowell, one of Washington’s top attorneys, has spent decades helping high-profile clients engulfed in…
South Carolina Is So Desperate for Executions That Firing Squads Have Become an Option
duncan1890/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.For 10 years, South Carolina was unable to execute anyone because the state couldn’t secure the drugs used in lethal injections. Initially undeterred, when the drug supply began running low,…