Rise and I'm Sammy Sager Dreamers look alive my friends. I'm V. Spear and I'm Sammy

Sage and this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News where we explore the

absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American

experience. Today we are very grateful to be joined by the hosts of the

podcast strict scrutiny, a podcast about the Supreme Court and the culture surrounding

it. We are thrilled to welcome

Leah Lippman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray. Welcome. Thanks for having us.

Thank you so much for having us. We are so excited to have you. Today we want to talk

about some of the biggest cases

that are before the Supreme Court this term, quite a few important themes that

they're deciding, as well as some bigger trends going on with Skotis itself and the ethics and sort of the bigger principles

that they're making their decisions based upon.

The elephant in the room is obviously the Mifapristone case.

What signals are you getting about where the court might come out on that?

So I think that coming out of the oral argument,

we felt cautiously optimistic about the prospect that at least in the short term the court is not going to blow up access to Mepa Pristone, but that is for a technical legal reason, which is that the doctors, the anti-abortion

doctors who brought the challenge to these regulations that you know loosened

some of the restrictions that attached initially to the prescription and use of Mifapristone.

So the challenge was to make it basically harder to get access to Mifapristone,

but the doctors were pretty unable to show that they were personally injured by the terms on which the FDA has rendered

Mepapristone available and there's a basic legal requirement in the federal courts that

you're supposed to be able to show you were personally injured by government action in order to be

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