Donald Trump’s Lawyer Tries to Convince the Supreme Court That Presidents Are Above the Law
President Donald Trump leaves at the end of a White House briefing about the coronavirus.AP Photo/Alex Brandon For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard more than four hours of arguments over whether two banks and an accounting firm should obey subpoenas, issued by…
The Supreme Court’s Punt on a Second Amendment Case Is a Short-Term Victory for Gun Control Groups
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Supreme Court on Monday declined to issue a ruling on a New York City gun regulation, scoring a big victory for gun control groups, but potentially setting up for a bigger Second Amendment battle in the future. …
She Won an Abortion Rights Case in the Supreme Court. Now She’s Watching the Same Damn Fight Again.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Amy Hagstrom Miller is one of the fiercest advocates for reproductive rights in the country. She is the president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, a network of eight abortion clinics that operate in five states, and she’s best known for her role as a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case in 2016,…
Supreme Court Oral Arguments Leave Abortion Precedents in Jeopardy
Anti-abortion marchers and abortion-rights supporters at the U.S. Supreme Court on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in January 2005.Pete Souza/TNS via ZUMA Wire On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard is first abortion case since President Trump’s appointments of conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Despite the court’s new conservative majority, the morning’s oral arguments…
The Energy Industry’s “Metaphysical” Argument for a Pipeline That Crosses the Appalachian Trail
A sign for the Appalachian trail cutting through Washington County in Maryland.Joe Tennis/AP Does the National Forest Service have the authority to approve natural gas pipeline construction across the Appalachian Trail? Today, in US Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association and Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, the Supreme Court heard oral…
Sonia Sotomayor Calls Out the Supreme Court Majority for Its Trump Bias
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press) Following a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling issued Friday night, the Trump administration can move ahead with enforcing a rule designed to make it harder for poor and working-class immigrants to get green cards. Last month, the court split along the same lines to remove a nationwide injunction from a…