What's good, Joe? This is Gene and this episode is not about the Supreme Court. It's probably

on a lot of your minds, it's on ours too. Especially after last Friday, when the Supreme Court overturned

Roe v Wade and ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion. And even though the draft

opinion in this case leaked months ago, it was still shocking because this is the first time the

court has ever rolled back a right that was previously granted to people in the United States.

And in this decision, the majority repudiated the legal framework around Roe, this notion

of a constitutional right to privacy. And that's important because it's from that same legal

reasoning, that same framework around privacy that the court has recognized things like gay rights

and marriage equality and the right to contraception. So the question quickly became,

is the court then going to revisit whether those rights are unconstitutional to next?

Anyway, yeah, we've been reporting out a lot of the history of the Supreme Court these last few

weeks to wrap our heads around the court. And one of the surprising and unnerving things that we've

learned from historians is that what we've seen these last few weeks, this is actually how the

court gets down. This is how the court has always moved. It's not Brown v. Board of Education,

it's not Miranda v. Arizona or Lawrence v. Texas. Those are the cases we know they say because

those cases paint a really flattering picture of this August institution that protects the public

from the powerful. But the real story of the court, they say, is a story of justices who have

almost always sided with the powerful. So that's a history we want to get into very soon and we

want to get into it with y'all to help us think through this big question. What do we do

with the Supreme Court? And there will be more details to come on that very soon.

This episode you're about to hear is about the law and it's about some big questions over rights

and protections that are extended to some people and not to others with life altering ramifications.

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