Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Who is Not In a Coma, Returns to Supreme Court
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her return to the Supreme Court for oral arguments on Monday for the first time since announcing she underwent surgery in December for cancer. Her public appearance comes after false conspiracy theories about her health…
Trump Judicial Nominees Are Refusing to Endorse Brown v. Board of Education
Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 5.Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s no Supreme Court decision more widely celebrated than Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 ruling that…
Two Years Ago, This Immigration Lawyer Marched on an Airport. Today, He’s Running for State House.
Hassan Ahmad in his law firm in McLean, VirginiaKanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after President Donald Trump announced his travel ban two years ago, on January 28, 2017, Hassan Ahmad headed to Dulles International Airport in Virginia hoping to help. A local immigration lawyer, Ahmad says he felt like he had…
It Took Nearly 50 Years, But New York Finally Just Decriminalized Abortion
A demonstrator holds up a banner saying “Keep Abortion Legal” in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City, on January 20, 2018. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, pro-choice activists have pushed to reform abortion access in one of the country’s…
This Supreme Court Murder Case Could Completely Change Tribal Sovereignty in Oklahoma
Mother Jones illustration; Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Patrick Murphy didn’t say he was innocent. In the summer of 1999, when Murphy, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of eastern Oklahoma, killed his girlfriend’s ex-lover, also a Creek member, slashing his throat and cutting off his…
What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg places some items in her bag before speaking at Georgetown Law School, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the Basis of Sex, a feature film on the pioneering legal work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…