Republicans Call for Muslim Americans to Be Deported After Australia Shooting

Republican lawmakers are seizing on Sunday’s tragic mass shooting in Bondi Beach, Australia to call for Muslims in America to face collective punishment, in yet another example of the right’s ongoing campaign of Islamophobia. In a post on X on Sunday, just hours after the shooting was first reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) wrote that all Muslims should be deported.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook Defamation Challenges

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from far right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was seeking an appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment against him after he lost a defamation lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting of 2012. Jones and his legal team submitted a writ of certiorari to the high court last week, arguing that his past…
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