A Fascinating Detail in the Herschel Walker Saga

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The Daily Beast reporter who broke the story of Herschel Walker paying for a girlfriend’s abortion has provided behind-the-scenes details and thoughts on the case. Politics reporter Roger Sollenberger pointed to the key detail in the cobweb of Walker stories to host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of political podcast The New Abnormal: the woman behind the allegations. Speaking of the potential political ramifications for Walker, guest podcast host Josie Duffy Rice, who writes about prisons and prosecution at The Unnamed, told Levy that while the abortion bombshell could swing the vote, it is unlikely to make Republicans switch. Then, Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate Magazine who covers court and law, describes how the Supreme Court is blowing up Law School too. “The court has become, in many ways, corrupted by the political process and so just delivers these decisions that fall perfectly in line with the platform,” he says.

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0:00.0	Munks looks to the future to meet your aspirations.
0:04.0	That's why we take time to consider those key themes that we believe will provide opportunities for the years ahead.
0:10.0	Looking forward in this way, rather than backwards, helps our search for those companies that will shape the future.
0:16.0	We think it's a better way to deliver returns you can look forward to.
0:20.0	Munks is managed by Bayley Gifford. A key information document is available by visiting BayleyGifford.com.
0:27.0	As with any investment, capital is at risk.
0:33.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious objector.
0:39.0	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:42.0	And I'm producer Jesse Kettel and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:47.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some great guest co-hosts,
0:51.0	as well as some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media and beyond.
0:56.0	Our goal is to try to make some sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal,
1:01.0	and hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.
1:03.0	What a great show we have today.
1:05.0	First, we're going to be joined by Mark Joseph Stern, who's a senior writer at Slate,
1:09.0	and he's going to talk to us all about what's going on with the Supreme Court right now.
1:12.0	Then we're going to talk to Daily Beast Politics reporter Roger Salenberger,
1:15.0	who's been, of course, breaking tons of insane stories about their hersial walker race,
1:20.0	and we're going to talk all about what else he's seeing there.
1:23.0	But first, we're joined by Josie Duffy Rice, who writes the substack, the unnamed,
1:28.0	where she writes about prisons and prosecution.
1:30.0	Josie Duffy Rice.
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