Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that wants to take the Democratic primary

and drown it in a pool.

I'm Imani Gandhi.

And I'm Jess Peklo.

Rewire.

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Jess, I'm so tired. Why is that, Amani? Well, this primary is literally sucking the life force out of me,

figuratively speaking, but also, but also because you and I have been writing about admitting

privileges laws for about seven years now. We've written about them and we've spoken about them

ad nauseum and we keep mentioning and talking and discussing how pointless they are. And yet

these laws won't stop happening.

They just won't.

And then there's the 2016 case, Holman's Health v. Hellerstead,

where the Supreme Court confirmed just how pointless these laws are.

Exactly.

So why the fuck are we still talking about them?

I want to stop talking about them.

I want people to quit pretending that we're all Ma and Pa Jode living in the dust bowl

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