Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade | 4. Roe Against Wade
Slow Burn
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Harry Blackmun wasn’t Richard Nixon’s first choice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. But after Blackmun was confirmed, he got the assignment of a lifetime: writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade. His approach to that case would have consequences he never imagined.
Season 7 of Slow Burn is produced by Susan Matthews, Samira Tazari, Sophie Summergrad, and Sol Werthan.
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| 0:33.0 | American generals, the citizens of North Vietnam, |
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| 1:00.6 | never been more liberal than it was in the 1950s and 60s. |
| 1:05.0 | Led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, they had banned segregation in public schools, outlawed |
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