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Boom! Lawyered

How Some DeSantis Goons Decimated Abortion Access in the Southeast

Boom! Lawyered

Rewire News Group

Immigration, News, History, Jeff Sessions, Reproductive, Racial, Trials, Law, Lgbtq, Supreme Court, Scotus, Government, Politics, Justice, Discrimination

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's a Florida-sized abortion mess.

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds.

0:13.0

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal

0:17.6

journalism team, that one of which is turning 50 this month.

0:20.9

So we're going to celebrate her entire month.

0:22.7

Happy 50th birthday month, Jess.

0:24.6

I'm Rewire News Group, editor at large, Imani Gandhi.

0:27.5

And I'm Jess Peklo, Rewire News Group's executive editor.

0:31.0

Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert reaper journalism that inspires

0:35.2

you to embrace aging because you know what it's a gift y'all

0:39.2

and this boom lawyer podcast is part of that mission so a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome

0:45.6

to our new listeners in twin decisions this week the florida supreme court stripped the right

0:52.3

to abortion from the Florida Constitution,

0:54.9

while also allowing voters to decide whether to amend that Constitution so that it explicitly

1:00.4

protects the right to abortion. What a mess. Recently, we did an episode on the ongoing efforts

1:07.3

in Pennsylvania to locate a right to abortion in that state's constitution.

1:12.6

And in that episode, we pointed out the importance of state court elections when it comes to judges.

1:18.1

Well, in Pennsylvania, Supreme Court judges are elected.

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Not so much in Florida.

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Where Ronnie putting fingers to Sanchez.

1:27.4

No, not putting fingers DeSantis.

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No, not putting fingers.

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Where Ron DeSantis has made it his mission to stack the courts with right-wing ideologues so that they'll do what they did earlier this week.

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