Of Course Samuel Alito Is Bragging About It
Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.High off the fumes of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the constitutional right to an abortion, a beaming Samuel Alito has emerged to try his hand at comedy. It did not go well.…
“Alito Was Using Phrases We Had Invented as Bumper-Sticker Slogans in a Supreme Court Decision”
Mother Jones illustration; Lauren Victoria Burke/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This interview is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Interfaith Alliance, a national organization that champions an inclusive vision of religious freedom to protect people of all faiths and none. Religious freedom…
At Least 25 States Are One Supreme Court Decision Away From Banning Same-Sex Marriage
arsenisspyros/ Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In his decision to help gut Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell”—cases that enshrined Americans’…
Health Care Workers: What Policy Changes Has Your Employer Made Since Roe v. Wade Was Overturned?
Pro-choice demonstrators, including Emma Harris, left, and Ellie Small, center, both students at George Washington University gather in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington, DC.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to…
Clarence Thomas Wants to End Marriage Equality. He Has Two Different Strategies to Do It.
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion last month, Justice Clarence Thomas…
SCOTUS May Have Ended Trump’s Cruel Border Policy. It’s Hardly a “Home Run” Victory for Immigrants.
Woman protests against the “Remain in Mexico” policy in front of the Supreme Court.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term.…