For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court came down on the side of justice! On Thursday morning, it blocked the Trump administration's efforts to rescind DACA in a 5-4 decision. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain the decision, how Justice Sotomayor added an extra dollop of truth, and whether Trump has any hope of finding a workaround.
A big Supreme Court decision just arrived, and it's comprehensively awesome. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court confirmed that "an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law." In this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo react to the decision — written by Neil Gorsuch, of all people — and the extremely salty dissent.
Gavin Grimm has been challenging a policy at his former high school that requires transgender students to use separate bathroom facilities. On Tuesday, the case landed in federal appeals court. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo break down the arguments and explain why the school's pleas to keep discriminating are so horribly misguided.
In a wild preview of the upcoming FX documentary AKA Jane Roe, it was revealed that Norma McCorvey, aka "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, admitted on film that her anti-choice conversion was "all an act." On this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani react to the shocking news.
On April 27, Arkansas officials issued a directive requiring anyone seeking elective surgery to obtain a negative COVID-19 test 48 hours prior to an abortion. Can you guess which elective procedure those officials were primarily targeting? Yep, that's right: procedural abortion. On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo explain everything happening in Arkansas.
Believe it or not, the Supreme Court is still hearing cases on the birth control benefit. Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy hop on the mics after Wednesday's Supreme Court arguments to break down everything you need to know.
Next week, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments in two consolidated cases that could kill off the birth control benefit for good. Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy preview everything you need to know.
The landscape of abortion access is shifting rapidly and it feels something new is happening every day. Which states are trying to use COVID-19 to try and ban abortion? How are the courts responding? It’s almost impossible to keep up. On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy do their best to bring us up to speed on the latest developments.
In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani lay waste to the claim that protesting an abortion clinic during a global pandemic is an "essential service" and discuss whether the courts will look the other way, anyway.
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