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Yesterday, Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records in the hush money trial in New York. He has, of course, promised to appeal.

This is an important verdict and a historic moment.

A felon is a major party's presumptive nominee for the presidency.

It's also likely that this is the only trial that will come to a conclusion before November's election.

We have discussed the case on the show before, most recently in our episode of April 19th,

and we will talk about it again. For today, we're looking at a different issue that is likely to have a bigger impact on the outcome of the election, and which also has a profound effect on

American women, the right to have an abortion. You can listen to our reporting and analysis of the verdict against Donald Trump

on today's episode of The Intelligence.

Roe v. Wade was argued twice before the Supreme Court.

The first time, in front of only seven justices, Jay Floyd argued for Texas.

Defending that state's abortion ban, he opened with a joke about the two women who were opposing counsel,

Linda Coffey and Sarah Weddington. Mr. Floyd said,

When a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word.

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