Jessica covers government and media for Legal Not Legal, tracking how policy decisions get made, reported on, and sometimes distorted somewhere between the two. Her pieces often start with a headline claim and work backward — checking a bill's actual text, a ruling's actual scope, an agency's actual statement — to give readers the details that tend to get left out of the first version of a story. She's also drawn to political legacy coverage, tracing how a decision made years ago still shapes the debates happening today.
Jessica keeps a folder of corrections and clarifications that outlets quietly issued after the fact, mostly as a reminder to double-check the first draft of any big story before repeating it. She treats a walked-back claim as more instructive than the original headline.
