Supreme Court’s Stealth Attack on the Clean Water Act Was Too Extreme for John Roberts
Chief Justice John Roberts with the associate justices of the Supreme Court.Brendan Smialowski/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This past Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 shadow docket order reviving a Trump-era ruling that radically limited the ability of states and tribes to restrict projects,…
Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History and Becomes the First Black Woman on Supreme Court
President Joe Biden congratulates Ketanji Brown Jackson moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to be the first Black woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Senate voted 53–47 today to confirm…
Good on Susan Collins for Doing the Bare Minimum
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in her office on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced today…
Why You Should Care That Ginni Thomas Is Bonkers
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas at funeral services for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our…
Stranger Dangers: The Right’s History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon
Tom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At some point between the ’80s and now, leaving children unattended in public became unthinkable. To let children as old as, say, 10 walk by themselves became grounds to investigate parents for neglect. As a…
Cory Booker Says SCOTUS Needs to “Use This Thomas Affair” to Change Its Ethics Rules
The Washington Post via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Reactions to a series of text messages from GOP activist and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni Thomas to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning…