Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”
Mother Jones illustration; Eric Lee/CNP/ZUMA; Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the…
Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion
Abortion rights activists rally outside the court on March 26.Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices…
Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions…
New York Appeals Court Gives Donald Trump a $300 Million Break
Former President Donald Trump leaves a pretrial hearing during a recess with his defense team on March 25.Mary Altaffer/Pool/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump received mixed legal news in New York Monday morning, with an appeals court handing the former president an…
The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case Is Based on Imaginary Patients and Shoddy Science
Mother Jones illustration; Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The last time lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom argued before the Supreme Court, their case was entirely hypothetical. The conservative Christian legal advocacy group—the force behind some of the most…
From Laddie Mag Model to RNC Co-Chair: Lara Trump, Nepo-Spouse
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 8, the Republican National Committee gathered for its spring meeting and ushered in big leadership changes. Among those voted into a top spot in the party was Lara Trump—the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump—who was elected…