Why Smashing the Administrative State Is a Disaster for Reproductive Rights
An abortion rights advocate participates in a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2024, in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It turns out the most consequential reproductive rights case before the Supreme Court this past…
“The President Is Now a King”: The Most Blistering Lines From Dissents in the Trump Immunity Case
Mother Jones; Carolyn Kaster/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In response to the Supreme Court’s momentous decision ruling that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for “official” acts, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued blistering dissents. They blasted the reasoning…
The Supreme Court Just Put Trump Above the Law
Justin Lane/Pool/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that presidents have broad criminal immunity for official acts, effectively placing the presidency beyond the reach of criminal law for the first time in the country’s history. The 6-3 decision…
Why the Supreme Court Blew Up the Purdue Opioid Settlement
Signs in the shape of headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that members of the…
Supreme Court Conservatives Just Dealt a Massive Blow to the Administrative State
Herring being unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, MaineRobert F. Bukaty/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In one of the most highly anticipated decisions this term, the Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old legal doctrine, so-called “Chevron deference,” under which judges had been expected…
Supreme Court Looks Set to Avoid Deciding Whether Women Can Get Emergency Abortions
Sarah A. Miller/TNS via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court is poised to issue a decision punting on one of the term’s most closely watched abortion cases. The decision will leave for another day—one not just months before a presidential…