The GOP’s Grand Plan: Minority Rule
Mother Jones; Macmillan; Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times/AP It’s been said so often it’s almost become a cliché: Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. But his authoritarian impulses and hate-encouraging demagoguery are far from the only peril for the nation. Conservatives and Republicans for years have been striving on multiple fronts to weaken…
These Conservative Christian Lawyers Are Helping States Defend Their Abortion Bans
ADF attorney Erin Hawley outside the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, following oral arguments in a case involving the abortion drug mifepristone.Francis Chung/Politico via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider its third major abortion case in…
The Supreme Court Has Already Given Trump What He Wants in the Immunity Case
Mother Jones illustration; Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire/Getty; Timothy A. Clary/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments over former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and novel theory that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for anything that involved alleged…
Emergency Abortion Care Is Before the Supreme Court—and Blue States Should Be Very Worried
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Jaelyn was 19 weeks and five days into a much-wanted pregnancy when the cramping began—slowly at first, then in an insistent rhythm that signaled she was in labor. Several excruciating hours later, emergency doctors delivered…
Churches Don’t Have to Be Accessible. That’s Bad News For Voters.
Mother Jones; Unsplash; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Eli. Underwood likes the experience of voting in person, but they now have to vote by mail. Underwood went to a Detroit church to cast a ballot in the 2022 general elections, but chronic health conditions…
This Tribe Will Gladly Accept Clean Energy Funding, Even If Wyoming Won’t
Northern Arapaho host a local powwow on the eve of a solar eclipse in Riverton, Wyoming.Helen H. Richardson/Getty Images This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Wyoming governor Mark Gordon told the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 that the state would not be applying for…