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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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.
The Fall of a Corporate Crime Fighter
Famed class action attorney Bill Lerach's pursuit of corporate fraud cases landed him on the wrong side of the law.
Passing Judgment
Bush's latest controversial judicial nominee opposes abortion and gay rights. But there's a reason why he may not be so bad on the bench.
Courting Disaster
The Senate and the Supremes square off over fair pay.
