The Supreme Court Is Set to Kill Affirmative Action. Just Not for Rich White Kids.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When he was eight years old, Michael Wang decided he wanted to go to Harvard. “I don’t know if it’s the Asian stereotype,” he told me, “but I saw it as an avenue to social mobility.” Though he wouldn’t…
This Supreme Court Term Is All About White Grievance
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.From Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, to the deadly white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, to Fox News’ fear mongering over critical race theory, white grievance has become an animating force on the right. Now, it has officially arrived…
How the Left Lost Faith in SCOTUS and Learned to Love Packing the Court
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the spring day last year the Supreme Court announced it would hear a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, Sarah Lipton-Lubet knew immediately how the case would end: the court, stacked with six conservative Justices, would kill the…
Alabama Wants to Pervert the 14th Amendment to Gut Voting Rights. So Justice Jackson Took Them Back to History Class.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts as her husband Dr. Patrick Jackson looks on on September 30, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Fred Schilling/Collection Of/Planet Pix/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court’s…
The Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Wants to Gut the Voting Rights Act—Again
Dana Verkouteren/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Violations of the [Voting Rights Act] should not be made too easy to prove,” a young John Roberts wrote when he worked in the Reagan administration in 1982, “since they provide a basis for the most intrusive…
Abortion Opponents Don’t Want You to Read News About Abortion
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Now that Roe v. Wade has been repealed by the Supreme Court, abortion opponents are aiming at a new target: those who share information about abortion. This push might put us at Mother Jones, a 46-year-old reader-supported…