Boom! Lawyered

Rewire News Group's Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy

Every week, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy take you on a wild ride through the latest legal battles in the fight for reproductive justice. On everything from abortion rights to trans discrimination to racial justice, Boom! Lawyered will help you get smart, stay mad, have fun, and fight back. Produced by Rewire News Group.

  • 20 minutes 39 seconds
    We Are in the Bad Place (Re-Release)

    Two years ago today, Politico published the bombshell leak heard around the world—Justice Samuel Alito's 98-page majority draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

    In this flashback episode, Jess and Imani react the following afternoon to the absolute sucker punch.

    For more coverage of the leaked opinion, check out our next episode, "Processing the Fallout of the Supreme Court Leak."

    Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered—especially emergency episodes like this one—is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

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    2 May 2024, 10:00 am
  • 21 minutes 30 seconds
    Will SCOTUS Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients?

    It was a grim day at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Idaho v. United States with the fate of Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) at stake.

    Jess and Imani bring you quick analysis about what happened, including how the conservatives are arguing in the margins about life and death. 

    Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that rapid reaction episodes like this one is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

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    24 April 2024, 7:53 pm
  • 20 minutes 56 seconds
    Will SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon Patients Who Need Abortions?

    It’s time for oral arguments in the second abortion case this Supreme Court season, one that Jess and Imani have both written and talked a lot about in the last year. In this week's episode, they share what they'll be listening for during Wednesday's arguments.

    They'll also be bringing you their rapid reactions later that day, so be sure to tune in.

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    19 April 2024, 11:00 am
  • 46 minutes 7 seconds
    Elie Mystal on Why You Don't Need to Like SCOTUS Anymore

    With Jess out, Elie Mystal, friend of the pod and justice correspondent at the Nation, joins Imani on a supersized episode of the pod this week!

    They chat about all your favorite and not-so-favorite Supreme Court justices: Samuel Alito's long hatred for women, how much Amy Coney Barrett hates abortion, and why it's not even worth talking about the recent calls for Sonia Sotomayor to retire.

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    12 April 2024, 11:00 am
  • 24 minutes 21 seconds
    How Some DeSantis Goons Decimated Abortion Access in the Southeast

    The Florida Supreme Court was busy this week in issuing decisions surrounding bodily autonomy.

    In twin decisions the court stripped abortion rights from the Florida Constitution—and to no one's surprise, the reason was dodgy at best—while also allowing voters to decide whether to amend the constitution so it explicitly protects abortion. In the process, the court upheld the state's 15-week ban and cleared the way to let a more restrictive six-week ban to take effect May 1.

    Jess and Imani try to make sense of these decisions and explain how they're related to the fight for "personhood" in the Sunshine State.

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    5 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 22 minutes 8 seconds
    Mifepristone’s Not-So-Bad Day at the Court

    Who had a bad day at the Supreme Court this morning for oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine? Erin Hawley.

    What had an OK day at the Supreme Court? Mifepristone!

    In this rapid reaction episode, Jess and Imani agree that mifepristone's big moment before the justices didn't seem as bad as they were expecting. Listen along and get the nuts and bolts of the important points from today's oral arguments.

    Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that rapid reaction episodes like this one is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

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    26 March 2024, 6:25 pm
  • 22 minutes 20 seconds
    Two Key Issues to Watch in the High-Stakes Abortion Pill Case

    Pace yourself this Supreme Court season, folks, as we head into oral arguments for two major abortion rights cases before the term ends.  First up on Tuesday is FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which will decide the fate of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

    Not only could a ruling before the end of the Court term wipe out access, conservatives are using the case to resurrect the Comstock Act to eventually outlaw "obscene" things like contraception in the United States.

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    22 March 2024, 8:00 am
  • 25 minutes 59 seconds
    The Fifth Circuit Just Took Us One Step Closer to Ending Birth Control Access

    This week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Deanda v. Becerra, which challenges teens’ ability to access birth control without parental consent. The Fifth Circuit, unsurprisingly, ruled in favor of Deanda, upending four decades of federal precedent.

    Jess and Imani break down the appeals court’s decision and why the ruling is a ticking time bomb for Title X in other states, too.

    Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means Boom! Lawyered is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

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    15 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 27 minutes 11 seconds
    What’s With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills? (Re-Release)

    The next major Supreme Court fight over nationwide abortion access since the overturn of Roe v. Wade is coming up. Oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, regarding mifepristone access, one of two drugs used in medication abortion, is set for March 26, and the justices could potentially set access back decades.

    In this flashback episode, Jess and Imani discuss how anti-choice activists are using scare tactics—and language like “chemical abortion”—to stigmatize mifepristone. Decades of research and data show mifepristone is safe and effective.

    Rewire News Groupis a nonprofit media organization, which means Boom! Lawyered is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

    And sign up forThe Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

    23 February 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 37 seconds
    Valentine's Week Message From Jess and Imani

    Catch up with stories you may have missed at rewirenewsgroup.com.

    Rewire News Groupis a nonprofit media organization, which means Boom! Lawyered is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

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    16 February 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 2 seconds
    Hello Mife, My Old Friend. Junk Science Is Attacking You Again.

    Junk science is everywhere surrounding the big medication abortion case the Supreme Court will hear in late March, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The junk science is so improper, in fact, that the academic publishers who published studies that were cited by the plaintiffs—and the lower court judge who ruled on it, Matthew Kacsmaryk—retracted them.

    As Imani says in this week's episode, the Supreme Court may very well rely on a bunch of bozos when it decides to maintain the restrictions on access to abortion that were imposed by Kacsmaryk and the Fifth Circuit. So if the evidence upon which that decision was based is garbage, the Court should rule in favor of the FDA. Right?

    Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means Boom! Lawyered is only made possible with the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.

    And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

    9 February 2024, 12:00 pm
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