From Wedding Websites to ‘Whites Only’: Will the Supreme Court OK Economic Discrimination?
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, the Supreme Court heard 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case brought by a Colorado designer who only will create wedding websites for opposite-sex couples—not same-sex ones—and wants to advertise…
Con Law: How a Fake Document Could Help the Supreme Court Diminish our Democracy
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three decades after the Constitution was drafted in Philadelphia, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams set about assembling the government’s official Journal of the Convention. Missing from the records was the proposal submitted by Charles…
Dem Dysfunction, Tabloid Hellscapes, Crime: How New York Almost Went Red
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A month or so before the election, the New York Post‘s sensationalism remained wide-ranging. The old saying “If it bleeds it ledes” was still true on many days. Headlines warned of the dystopian (“Blade Runner”) and the apocalyptic (“Holy Hell”), or…
How the New York State Democratic Party Lost Its Grassroots—and Then the US House
Jay Jacobs, the New York State Democratic Party chair.Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was two weeks before the New York statewide June primary, when Erica Vladimer realized a powerful member of her own party was working against her. Vladimer was campaigning to…
How Right-Wing Groups Set the Stage for the Supreme Court to Rig Future Elections
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Getty; United States Census Bureau Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear a bombshell case, Moore v. Harper, that will have enormous ramifications for future elections. The outcome will determine whether state legislatures—many of which are…
“It Appears All Hope Is Lost,” House Republicans Warn
Kevin McCarthy is disappointed.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, I got an angry email from the Republican Party. I’d just written a snarky blog post about some dubious fundraising solicitations from the House GOP campaign arm—”13X MATCH…