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Civics 101

Moyle v U.S.: Why did SCOTUS punt an abortion case?

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court decided it wouldn't decide.

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0:00.0

A note to listeners in this episode we're discussing legal issues with contextual

0:04.9

references to sexual assault and other content that might not be

0:08.6

appropriate for all. Just a heads up. All right, here we go. Sounds like chameleon.

0:15.0

It is a chameleon.

0:17.0

I love this song.

0:18.0

Herbie Hancock made this famous on his album, Headhunter.

0:22.0

You know, Nick, maybe you ever can. on his album, Headhunter.

0:27.2

You know, Nick, maybe you ever consider just reporting instead of just talking about fun little trivia facts.

0:29.6

On April 24, 2024, when Civics 101 was in Washington, D.C., Nick and I went to the Supreme Court.

0:39.0

I had acquired a press pass to go inside and hear the arguments.

0:44.0

We will hear argument this morning in case 23-726

0:48.0

Moil versus United States and the consolidated case.

0:52.0

Mr. Turner. And Nick stayed outside. What do we want?

0:55.0

When do we want it?

0:59.0

In this case.

1:01.0

And actually it's two consolidated cases, Idaho and Moyle at all the United States.

1:07.0

I'm going to refer to it as Moil.

1:09.0

The court was looking at a strict abortion restriction in Idaho and trying to figure out whether or not it

1:14.6

conflicted with a federal law.

1:17.2

And on June 27, 2024, the court announced its opinion, and we will get into that in detail later.

1:24.8

By the by the opinion was known a day before it was released.

1:28.4

The court had accidentally posted it to its own website, sort of a self-inflicted leak. And there are a lot of pieces to this case.

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