Welcome to a special edition of Legal AF Midweek with host Michael Popock and Karen Friedman

Agnifalo. We're joined by powerhouse constitutional litigator and winning Supreme Court advocate, attorney,

Roberta Robbie Kaplan to discuss of course the leak yesterday of Justice Alito's proposed draft

majority opinion dated February 22nd. In the Mississippi 15 week abortion law case,

Dobbs versus Jackson, that if adopted by the four other justices that we believe are out there,

Kavanaugh, who are such Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett will overturn the law of the land for 50 years

that there is a federal constitutional right to a woman to exercise autonomy over her body

and have a right to choose an abortion or carry to term, turning it over instead to the states where

at least 23 of them at last count are poised to ban abortion or severely limited outright the day

that row is overturned. We'll discuss what Alito's draft majority opinion is and what it isn't

and how it got out into the public and what is its substance and reasoning and the implications for

the rights of women and other constitutional rights that were also not around in the 1800s

when the constitution was framed and that are not found in the literal text of the constitution

like gay marriage, women's rights and other equal protection and privacy rights. And we'll talk

about whether there are five votes since February means that there's five votes now

and in the summer to actually overturn Roe vs. Wade. I can't think of any one finer to join our

discussion today about what it all means and break it down to the legal AF audience

than Robbie. She's the founding partner of a firm here in New York, Kaplan Hacker and think

leading civil constitutional and First Amendment boutique firm in the country. She's a newly

anointed. I just saw it a day or so ago, 2022 trailblazer has plaintiffs attorney by the New

York, by the National Law Journal. She has represented everything that matters to our audience

involving gender equality, constitutional rights. She represents E. Jean Carroll, which the

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