SCOTUS Justices: Why Isn’t DOJ Treating Dobbs Protesters Like January 6 Attackers?
Eric Lee/ZUMA; mpi34/MediaPunch /IPX Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned the Justice Department’s use of a 2002 statute against obstructing an official proceeding to prosecute a number of people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. In…
Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions…
The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case Is Based on Imaginary Patients and Shoddy Science
Mother Jones illustration; Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The last time lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom argued before the Supreme Court, their case was entirely hypothetical. The conservative Christian legal advocacy group—the force behind some of the most…
Anti-Abortion Activists Are Peddling Another Lie About Abortion Pills—And We Debunked It
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments next week in the case seeking to restrict the availability of mifepristone, they’ll also hear baseless claims from the anti-abortion side about the role of telehealth abortion in facilitating intimate partner violence.Olga Fedorova/SOPA/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news…
Justice Ginsburg’s Family Decries Bestowing RBG Award on Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch
Mother Jones; John Minchillo/AP, Jessica Hill/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award. The winners: businessman Elon Musk, right-wing media kingpin Rupert Murdoch, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart,…
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Stay on Colorado’s Ballot
Mother Jones illustration; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty; Nati Harnik/AP; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump will appear on voters’ ballots in Colorado—and every other state. The Supreme Court sided with the former president on Monday, finding that the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists…