Federal law enforcement is investigating whether one woman charged in the attack on the Capitol earlier this month intended to sell a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office to Russia. The woman reportedly remains at large. The detail about the computer from Pelosi’s office was noted in an FBI agent’s statement of facts […] More
MOSCOW — The Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny faced a court hearing on Monday at a police station near the airport where he was arrested the previous evening, an extraordinary move by the Russian authorities. Mr. Navalny’s lawyer was notified Monday afternoon that his client would, within minutes, receive a court hearing to consider […] More
Don’t call it a comeback, but… Amber Portwood is making headlines again because, at least according to some insiders close to the reality TV star, she’s once again clean and ready to fight for custody of her son James. But will she be able to prove what she needs to do in court to work […] More
The answer also matters on a deeper institutional level. Some justices have drifted quite far from their ideological starting points. Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and David Souter come to mind. All were Republican-appointed justices (by Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, respectively) who ended their careers as among the most liberal […] More
LONDON — One day last March, as the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to sweep across Northern Ireland and the rest of Britain, Daniel Duckett was forced to shut the doors of his Belfast bakery and cafe, the Lazy Claire Patisserie. Britain’s prime minister would order all dining establishments closed as the scale of the pandemic […] More
This is big news.The Democrat-Marxist plan to steal elections like they did in 2020 DEPENDS on mail-in voting schemes. It is well documented that the Democrats always do better with mail-in voting. It’s much easier to cheat that way. No doubt, this is the Democrat-Marxist plan for the future. They were able to steal a […] More
The FDA regulates some 20,000 drugs, but the abortion pill is the only one it requires to be picked up in person, according to the ACLU. Both the ACOG and the American Medical Association consider mifepristone, the first of the two pills, safe for the woman to administer at home. It causes tissue in the […] More
Now we have a better idea of why Nicole Young landed $2 million in spousal support amid her divorce battle with Dr. Dre. The 51-year-old levied some unsettling allegations against her estranged husband in new court docs, claiming that the music mogul physically abused her and held a gun to her head on two occasions […] More
Democrats won a trio of races to flip the court in 2015, which opened the way for a string of decisions protecting voting rights, including a major ruling in 2018 that struck down the state’s GOP-drawn congressional map as an illegal partisan gerrymander. Those rulings have, however, ignited unending fury from Republicans, who have abandoned […] More
Activists protest outside the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, as it hears oral arguments regarding a Louisiana law about abortion access. Caroline Brehman/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. The Supreme Court issued its first […] More
On the surface, the Supreme Court’s decision in FDA v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was handed down Tuesday evening, is fairly minor. The case involves a Food and Drug Administration requirement that a pill used in medication abortions must be distributed to patients directly by health providers and not by retail or […] More
The first drug, mifepristone, blocks the effects of progesterone, a hormone without which the lining of the uterus begins to break down. A second drug, misoprostol, taken 24 to 48 hours later, induces contractions of the uterus that expel its contents. The contested measure requires women to appear in person to pick up the mifepristone […] More
