Stephanie Mencimer
Stephanie Mencimer covers legal affairs and domestic policy in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. She is the author of Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue.
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Why Texas Still Holds 'Em
Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants.
What Family Leave?
The nation's workplace policies are on par with those of some Third World countries. Does the Bush administration want to keep it that way?
Jammed by the Justice Department
The House Judiciary Committee's attempts to extract information from the DOJ on the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal have been met with a dial tone. John Conyers is getting ready to reach out and touch them with a subpoena.
Meet Big Business' Favorite Granny
With congressional Democrats moving to ban one of corporate America's most useful tricks, industry is fighting back with a 63-year-old widow who squeezed $281 out of Sears.
High Court Upholds Voter ID Law
In the most high-stakes voting-rights case since <i>Bush v. Gore</i>, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Indiana's hotly contested voter-fraud law.
Banking on Barney Frank
Consumer advocates who cheered when Frank took over the powerful House Financial Services Committee now gripe that he's less than a corporate scourge.
Whitewashing the Second Amendment
As the Supreme Court reviews a historic gun-rights case, lost is the Second Amendment's controversial history—when it wasn't a bulwark against tyranny but a way of enforcing it.
Have You Signed Away Your Right to Sue?
More employees are being forced to sign mandatory-arbitration clauses. But is it legal?
Daniel Troy's Poison Pill
How a former Bush appointee has the high court poised to wipe out consumer suits over dangerous medical products—and possibly much more.
Meet Bush's Prison Nominee
Tennessee's next trial court judge might be a prison company executive who has less courtroom experience than most inmates.
