Coronavirus and the Courts

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The coronavirus crisis has forced the U.S. Supreme Court to hit pause. What will happen to cases that have been argued, like June Medical Services v. Russo? What will happen to other important cases yet to be argued? And how concerned should we be for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Imani and Jess discuss these questions and more on the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.2	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:12.4	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is practicing safe social distancing.
0:18.6	I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:20.4	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:22.1	Rewire.
0:22.5	news is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice
0:26.5	news, commentary, and analysis on the web.
0:29.2	And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:32.0	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:35.8	So, Jess, we joke a lot about everything being totally bananas, but I got to say,
0:42.3	this coronavirus situation, it's totally freaking bananas.
0:47.1	Like, this is probably the one time when we can say literally bananas.
0:51.3	Right.
0:52.2	Like, they're actual bananas falling from the sky.
0:56.1	Infected bananas.
0:57.8	Infected coronavirus-ridden bananas.
1:01.0	But it's also really scary, which got me thinking, you know how most of the Supreme Court
1:05.9	justices are pretty damn old?
1:07.9	Oh, yeah.
1:08.5	Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for example.
1:10.3	She just turned 87. Happy birthday, RBG Bader Ginsburg, for example. She just turned 87.
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