Con Law: How a Fake Document Could Help the Supreme Court Diminish our Democracy
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three decades after the Constitution was drafted in Philadelphia, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams set about assembling the government’s official Journal of the Convention. Missing from the records was the proposal submitted by Charles…
The Supreme Court Just Announced Congress Can Access Trump’s Tax Returns
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court refused to hear Donald Trump’s plea to keep his tax returns out of Congress’ hands on Tuesday. This action finally ends the battle Trump began fighting in 2016, even before taking office when…
Dobbs Might Not Have Been the Only Supreme Court Decision That Leaked
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last May, something almost unprecedented happened: Politico obtained a leaked draft of a forthcoming Supreme Court opinion, and published it. It was not, of course, any draft opinion—it was Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v.…
The Supreme Court Just Heard Another Case Where the Idea of Equality Is Warped to Privilege White People
A photo of the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. taken on Oct. 31, 2022. Liu Jie/Xinhua/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard an under-covered but very important case about the the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a law…
Why Are Right-Wing Groups Targeting a Law Aimed at Protecting Native Families?
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2016, a Navajo and Cherokee 10-month-old named Zachary arrived in the home of a white, evangelical couple named Jennifer and Chad Brackeen. The Brackeens lived on an acre lot outside of Fort Worth, Texas,…
The Supreme Court Wants to Move on From Racism Already
Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears two cases on affirmative action on Monday, October 31, 2022. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The conservative Supreme Court appears poised to ban the use of race in…