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This Lawsuit Could Bring Reproductive Justice to the Supreme Court
Episode 63
SisterSong v. Kemp may be the first major lawsuit centering the reality that attacks on access to abortion care disproportionately harm communities o…
7 years, 3 months ago
There Are Concentration Camps for Kids at the Border. Is Any of This Legal?
Episode 62
Last week, a Department of Justice lawyer stunned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals when she argued that it is “safe and sanitary” to confine immigr…
7 years, 3 months ago
This Case Could Define Transgender Rights for a Generation
Episode 61
Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that policies targeting transgender people are sex-based discrimination that must meet heightened…
7 years, 4 months ago
How the Supreme Court Could Use the Census to Bless White Power in America
Episode 60
The fight over the Trump administration’s questionable efforts to add a citizenship question to the census has reached the Supreme Court, and a decis…
7 years, 4 months ago
What’s It Like to Sue the Trump Administration?
Episode 59
Jess sits down with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to discuss the challenges facing progressive attorneys general in the era of Trump and ho…
7 years, 4 months ago
Clarence Thomas Just Declared War on Your Birth Control
Episode 58
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that a provision of an Indiana law mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains could take effect. At the sa…
7 years, 4 months ago
What a Challenge to 'Roe' Will Actually Look Like
Episode 57
Conservative lawmakers are passing total and near-total abortion bans with the explicit hope that they will be used to overturn Roe v. Wade. But how …
7 years, 5 months ago
The Supreme Court Just Trashed 40 Years of Precedent and Sounded the Alarm for Roe
Episode 56
Franchise Board of California v. Hyatt may not be the most important case of the Supreme Court term, but the fallout from the Court's decision to ove…
7 years, 5 months ago
How Georgia and Kansas Reveal the Future Battleground for Abortion Rights
Episode 55
The near-total ban on abortion recently passed in Georgia contrasts sharply with the landmark decision in Kansas that declared abortion a natural rig…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Master Plan to Dismantle LGBTQ Rights Is in Its Endgame
Episode 54
The Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear three cases that could determine what, if any, protections LGBTQ employees have from job disc…
7 years, 6 months ago