From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast.

It's Monday, July 25th.

Are we entering a new era of nonviolent civil disobedience in this country in support of abortion rights. In a minute,

we'll talk to a member of Congress from New Jersey, who is among those arrested in front of the

Supreme Court in one such demonstration. It comes as voters in Kansas next week. We'll have abortion

rights on the ballot in the first voter referendum on the issue since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade last month.

The state legislature in Indiana is nearing a vote on banning almost all abortions there.

There are reports of more U.S. women going to Mexico to obtain legal abortions.

Did you know that the Supreme Court in that country recently declared abortion

a national right? So it's not just people from there coming here for an opportunity to have a

better life anymore, which is the usual narrative about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

We'll talk now to New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. As I said, she was one of a number of members of

Congress arrested in a nonviolent protest at the Supreme Court for abortion rights last week. She is

also a member of the Homeland Security Committee, and we'll talk about that with what we've

been learning from the January 6th Committee about how pre-planned some of the violence was on that day by white supremacist and militia groups, other white supremacist domestic terror threats, which the FBI, even under Trump, labeled the number one domestic terror threat, plus the attack last week on Republican New York urbanitorial candidate Lee Zeldin, the arrest of a person recently for

plotting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and more. Can our country keep this

from escalating further? And you may remember the Congresswoman got COVID after hiding out on January 6th

in a room with many congressional colleagues. She later blamed the

Republicans in the room who refused to wear masks even in that situation. Democrat Bonnie

Watson Coleman represents New Jersey's 12th congressional district, covering roughly from the

Plainfield and New Brunswick areas in the north, down through Princeton

and the Trenton area in the south. Congresswoman, we always appreciate when you come on with us.

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