US Officials Are Fighting Against International Human Rights Law—Again
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republican leadership hold a press conference on the Capitol steps.Allison Bailey/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the US House voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to the court’s prosecutor seeking an…
Biden Is Gutting Asylum. The Right Still Called It “Mass Amnesty” for “Illegals.”
Stephen Miller, a former aide in the Trump White House, speaks during a news conference.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Earlier this week, the Biden administration officially announced a long-anticipated border crackdown. The executive action—which relies on the same presidential…
Steve Bannon Is Going to Jail
Steve Bannon outside federal court in Washington following his October 2021 sentencing for contempt of CongressJose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Steve Bannon is going to jail. US District Judge Carl Nichols—a Trump appointee in Washington, DC—ordered Bannon to start serving…
Disenfranchised For Disabilities: Arizona’s Guardianship Law Is a Voting Rights Nightmare
A voter drops off her ballot at a drop box in Arizona.Matt York/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Becky King’s daughter Beth Papp turned 18, she couldn’t register to vote in her home state of Arizona. Five years later, she still can’t.…
Report: The NYPD Is Trying To Revoke Trump’s Concealed Carry Permit
If the NYPD can help it, Trump will not be able to “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody,” as he once speculated, after his guilty conviction in the hush-money case.Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Remember when Trump,…
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Is the dream dead? And, if so, who killed it? On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the Rose Garden of the White House to announce a massive change in immigration policy. For years, Congress had been unable to pass legislation to protect from deportation the so-called Dreamers, undocumented youth brought to the United States…