More Questionable Financial Revelations for Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasJ. Scott Applewhite/File/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Over the past two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on mandatory financial disclosure forms that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from a real estate…
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In late June…
Will SCOTUS Overturn This 1996 Law Governing the Internet?
People wait in line outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2023.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In November 2015, Nohemi Gonzalez was a 23-year-old California State University, Long Beach, student studying abroad in Paris. That’s…
Republican States Just Succeeded in Keeping a Key Trump Border Policy in Place
US military stop migrants from crossing into El Paso, Texas.Christian Chavez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In another setback for immigrant rights groups, a Trump-era border policy that summarily expels migrants and asylum seekers has been given an afterlife. On Monday, Chief Justice John…
Was the Anti-Abortion Influence Campaign an Open Secret at the Supreme Court?
Eric Lee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Reverend Robert Schenck testified before Congress about the anti-abortion influence campaign he ran targeting the Supreme Court, recounting the bombshell revelations that have clouded the highest court in scandal first reported in November by the…
Republicans Want the Supreme Court to “Rewrite History” So They Can Hijack Elections
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A lawyer for the GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that state legislatures should be granted sweeping new powers to pass gerrymandered maps and restrictive voting laws and cannot be constrained…