Political Gabfest - The “End Of Roe Is Nigh!” Edition
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post: “The Leaked Draft Roe Opinion Is A Disaster For The Supreme”
Edwin Meese III for The Washington Post: “Did The Conservative Legal Movement Succeed? That All Depends On Whether The Supreme Court Overrules Roe V. Wade.”
Reginald Dwayne Betts for The New York Times Magazine: “Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Ruth: Julia Clancy for Eating Well: “What Is an Air Fryer and Should You Buy One?”
James: The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City,
by Nicholas Dawidoff
Emily: She’s getting a puppy! Send your advice.
Listener chatter from Joe Stracci: Kevin Kelly for The Techium: “103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily and Ruth interview James about his innovative programs at Yale’s Center for Law and Racial Justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Thursday, May 5th. |
| 0:06.1 | The end of Row is Nye, edition. |
| 0:16.1 | No David and no John this week, but I actually think that's a virtue because I have here |
| 0:22.3 | with me two people who I am so eager to discuss this week's incredible legal and political news. |
| 0:30.8 | James form a junior is a professor at Yale Law School and the faculty director of the |
| 0:35.3 | Center for Law and Racial Justice. |
| 0:37.6 | James, welcome. |
| 0:38.9 | Thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:41.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.1 | Great to be here Emily. |
| 0:43.1 | And Ruth Marcus is deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post where she writes |
| 0:47.3 | the weekly column. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:49.5 | Hi, Emily. |
| 0:50.6 | How long did it take me to say yes to you? |
| 0:53.4 | I wanted to do nothing but talk about this week. |
| 0:58.6 | I was so grateful that you responded quickly. |
| 1:00.9 | It was a load off my mind yesterday. |
| 1:03.4 | So on this week's show, we are going to talk about the leak of all leaks from the Supreme |
| 1:08.0 | Court Justice Samuel Lido's draft of a majority opinion overturning Row versus Wade, |
| 1:14.0 | which if it goes into effect, would end the constitutional right to abortion in the United |
| 1:18.6 | States. |
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