Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast

hosted by the legal journalism team that would like to express solidarity with the Asian-American

Pacific Islander community in the wake of the ongoing violence that has occurred. I'm Imani

Gandy. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire News Group is dedicated to inspiring you to own your relationship to sex, abortion, parenthood, and power. And the team legal podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

We're going to be hitting three topics today. The first is the violence against the Asian American Pacific Islander community,

which I will be referring to as the AAPI community for brevity's sake in the wake of the racist

rhetoric regarding the quote-unquote China virus. We're also going to talk about Biden's efforts to

undo the domestic gag rule that Trump implemented, which bans federal funding going to clinics that

talk about abortion or even think about abortion. And then finally, we're going to get to some

happy stuff. We're going to be talking about Biden appointing new judges. So that's going to be

exciting. But first, we need to discuss this distressing uptick and violence against

Asian American people against AAPI people. There have been myriad assaults against AAPI people

over the last several weeks with people just pushing elderly folks into the street, punching

elderly women in the face. And that all culminated in the murder of eight people, including six Asian American women in Atlanta last night.

And it's really hard not to draw the connection between all of this hate directed at that community as a result of the homicidal canned yam who used to be in the White House, constantly referring to the COVID-19 pandemic as the quote-unquote China virus.

And, you know, this has sparked a discussion about allyship between black and AAPI communities.

And I just wanted to touch on that a bit because it's a very fraught issue.

And I'm seeing people on both sides sort of antagonizing each other

in a way that I don't find particularly useful. So, you know, black and Asian folks in this country

have been beaten down by white supremacy since we first got here, right? From slavery and the need

to add a constitutional amendment to recognize black people as full people and citizens to the

Chinese Exclusion Act, which explicitly barred Chinese people from immigrating into this country.

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