Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to a special rapid reaction episode of Boom Lawyard, a rewired.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is in a studio gazing into each other's eyes from across a table. I'm Imani Gandhi.

And I'm Jess Peklo. So, Jess, we're here in studio in Washington, D.C. Why? What did you do today?

Good question, Amani. I was at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in June Medical Services

versus Rousseau. Wow, I was too, except I was outside while

you were inside. So what I want to do is give our listeners a sense of what happened inside the

courtroom. Sure. So let's give some background for a little bit. Can we talk for just one hot

second about the fact that oral arguments in this case were only an hour. So you and I have spent how many

hours do you think talking about June medical services, right, podcasting about it, writing

about it, yelling about it on Twitter? 50,000 maybe. I think that might be excessive. But it's a lot.

It's a lot. And so we've got this case an hour for arguments total.

We've got attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights who were arguing on behalf of abortion providers.

And that was Julie Rickleman from the Center for Reproductive Rights.

She did a really good job.

Then we have the Louisiana Solicitor General, Elizabeth Murrell, who was arguing on behalf of

the state of Louisiana, and she was fine. I mean, she was fine. She did what she needed to do.

And then we had a very special appearance by Jeffrey Wall, principal deputy solicitor general for

the Trump administration. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why was the Trump administration at oral arguments in a case involving a Louisiana state

law?

We're going to get into that because I have a lot of thoughts.

Okay, because that seems a little unusual to me.

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