County Clerk
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The county clerk in a sleepy town finds himself on the frontlines of a national fight over abortion care. When a New York doctor prescribes abortion meds to a Texas woman, a state's rights fight erupts. Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck is front and center when he invokes the "shield law" to prevent Texas AG Ken Paxton from filing a case against the doctor.
Produced by Anna Sussman and Zoe Ferrigno. Original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff.
Season 16 - Episode 43
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| 0:27.0 | Snappers. |
| 0:28.4 | You know that Snap judgment is not the news. |
| 0:32.5 | But our next piece, it does begin with a new story. |
| 0:36.5 | A news story about a doctor in the state of New York, |
| 0:39.2 | providing abortion pills to a woman in Texas. |
| 0:43.3 | So after Roe was overturned, there was a realization that you could send abortion pills in the mail to any state, including states with bans. |
| 0:53.9 | This story was about abortion rights in different states. |
| 0:57.5 | It had massive implications for America. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.9 | So which state's laws are going to wind up on top here? |
| 1:03.6 | This is a question about state's rights, right? |
| 1:07.2 | What happened next was Texas decided to sue the doctor in New York State for sending the abortion |
| 1:13.9 | medicine to Texas. And here's where it gets interesting. There is this one local administrator, |
| 1:20.1 | a county clerk, who found himself right in the middle of this huge national story. And so we thought, |
| 1:29.3 | what's up with that guy? |
| 1:33.4 | Snaps Anna Suspun was like, that's my home county. |
| 1:36.6 | So we sent Anna to hunt him down. |
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