Boom! Lawyered is back. The award-winning legal team of Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo is here to make sense of the Senate battle over the release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Why have the Democrats threatened to sue, and what might we learn from the mountain of files if they are all released? Find out on Boom! Lawyered.
Tonight, Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. On yet another emergency episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo explore Kavanaugh's history on the bench and what his confirmation could mean for the Court and our rights.
In the final Boom! Lawyered episode of this Supreme Court term, hosts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy sift through the wreckage of the Court's decisions, explore how deep Trump's stacking of other federal courts goes, and discuss the end-game options for progressives who want to turn the tide.
A day after breaking down the Supreme Court's decisions to uphold the Muslim ban and strike down reasonable regulation of fake abortion clinics, Boom! Lawyered is back—again—to discuss the implications of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement.
Today, the Supreme Court gave a thumbs up to Donald Trump's Muslim ban and denied California's right to require factual disclosures by crisis pregnancy centers. Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy break down the key takeaways from a decision day we'll never forget.
Can Donald Trump pardon himself? What happens next if he tries? Whose fault is it that the pardon became so powerful? And how did the pardon even come to exist, anyway? Rewire.News legal eagles Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo answer all of these questions and more on the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered.
When it comes to favorites on the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets a lot of love. And it’s deserved! But in the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered, Rewire.News legal experts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain why someone else is deserving of the same—and possibly even more—love: Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Imani and Jess confront an extraordinary overreach by the Department of Justice. After failing to prevent immigrant minor Jane Doe from obtaining an abortion to which she's legally entitled, the Department is now asking the Supreme Court to punish the ACLU attorneys who represent her. Why? Because they dared to do their job. Listen to learn what this might mean for those attorneys – and for all of us.
Jessica Mason Pieklo was inside the courtroom as the Supreme Court heard arguments in NIFLA v. Becerra, which will decide whether a clinic can be required to reveal whether they are a licensed reproductive health-care provider or an unlicensed fake clinic. Here, she talks with Imani Gandy about the key arguments, memorable moments, and potential outcomes from the morning's events.
When a pregnant person walks into a clinic, should that clinic be forced to reveal whether they are a licensed reproductive health care provider or an unlicensed fake clinic? Rewire.News legal eagles Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo break down NIFLA v. Becerra, the Supreme Court case that's about to answer that question.
