Professor and Pulitzer-nominated author Marci Hamilton joins RJ Court Watch to talk about the explosion of so-called religious liberty bills in the states, and what they could mean as the Supreme Court considers marriage equality.
The Purvi Patel prosecution shines a light on the terrifying conclusion to anti-abortion rhetoric that criminalizes pregnancy outcomes and pits the pregnant person against her fetus.
Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo talk with political analyst Zerlina Maxwell about the nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general.
In the opening month of its term, the Supreme Court issued emergency orders on voting rights and abortion access in Texas. Rewire's Andrea Grimes joins us to discuss the overlap right now in the fight for reproductive and voting rights in the wake of these two big Supreme Court orders.
In this episode of RJ Court Watch, we talk to Brigitte Amiri, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, about the politics of the Little Sisters of the Poor crusade against the birth control benefit.
June marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision that required the federal government recognize same-sex marriages. How much longer until marriage equality is a reality nationwide?
In this episode, RJ Court Watch hosts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo discuss signs of hope and an emerging reproductive justice framework to respond to the relentless attacks on individual rights on everything from abortion access to voting in North Carolina.
In this episode, RJ Court Watch hosts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo discuss the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialty cases challenging the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act and unpack the legal and political arguments before the Supreme Court.
In the first episode of Rewire's new podcast, RJ Court Watch, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo discuss the legal challenges to the contraception mandate, including whether or not corporations can exercise a conscience, and whether or not the First Amendment speaks to or has any role in governing employee health insurance plans.
