On March 31, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Texas lawmakers to exploit the COVID-19 outbreak to ban abortion services—effective immediately. Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo hop on the mic to discuss what happened, what this means, and what's likely to happen next in Texas and around the country.
Eleven towns in East Texas recently declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn." Seriously. On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain why this ridiculous idea might be the first step of a scary new strategy from the anti-choice movement.
Jessica Mason Pieklo was inside the Supreme Court for arguments in June Medical Services v. Russo. Then she literally ran across the street to record this podcast with co-host Imani Gandy so she could bring the rest of us up to speed on the most important and surprising moments of the day.
On March 4, 2020 the Supreme Court will hear the first major abortion rights case since Brett Kavanaugh joined the bench. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo preview what's at stake and explain the sleeper issue that could upend abortion rights law as we know it.
An alarming new bill in Indiana asserts that life begins at conception and federal laws that “fail to protect a person’s inalienable right to life” are null and void in the Hoosier State. In other words, anti-choice lawmakers claim that the Constitution is null and void in Indiana—and their counterparts in other states could soon follow suit. On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain the latest fad in anti-choice legislation and whether it could actually hold up in court.
We have some big news: Rewire.News legal experts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy are launching a second podcast series on February 25! And we wanted to give Rewire.News readers a special preview.
Federalist Society heavyweight Leonard Leo is one of the primary architects of the conservative takeover of the federal courts. Now, he's got a new dark money project that could cement that takeover for a generation or more. On this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo explain Leo's new plan and just how scary things could get if it works.
From a landmark Supreme Court case to a bevy of state bans being argued in the lower courts, 2020 is shaping up to be a wild ride for abortion rights in the United States. In our final Boom! Lawyered episode of 2019, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo map out every case worth following in the year ahead.
Today, the Supreme Court declined an appeal challenging a Kentucky law that forces doctors to show and describe ultrasound images before performing an abortion—even if patients avert their eyes or ask the doctor to stop. In this emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain what this means for the First Amendment and abortion rights in Kentucky and around the country.
