Supreme Court, Abortion, and the Political Fallout

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What are we to make the Justice Samual Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health? Our hosts are here to discuss as the politics of abortion take shape. Sarah, Jonah, and David then pivot to what they learned from Tuesday’s primary elections. And finally, what does all of this mean for Trump’s chances in 2024? Show Notes: -David and Sarah’s podcast breaking down the Suprme Court leak -French Press: “The Supreme Court Abortion Leak—Your Questions, Answered” -G-File: “Why Joe Biden Hates Saying the A-Word” -The Sweep: “What Does J.D. Vance’s Victory Tell Us About the Midterms?” -Sarah in the Washington Post: “We in the ‘shallow state’ thought we could help. Instead, we obscured the reality of a Trump presidency.” -Smithsonian’s National Zoo: “Tragic Loss of Animal Life at Smithsonian’s National Zoo” -DCist: “There’s An Angry Turkey Attacking People On The Anacostia Riverwalk” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Izger joined by David French and Jonah
0:04.8	Goldberg plenty to discuss this week. We'll talk about the politics of Ro and the draft opinion
0:12.0	leaked from the Supreme Court. Check in on the primary elections in Ohio and what if anything we
0:18.3	learned on Tuesday night. And finally, the combination of all of the politics of this week and what
0:24.8	it potentially means for Donald Trump, the Republican Party in 2024.
0:43.7	Let's dive right in. Jonah, I'm going to start with the non-boyer on this podcast. You are
0:48.9	an interesting piece about how the politics are shaping up around the leaked draft that would
0:54.4	overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court sometime in the next two months. Yeah, I mean, I just
1:00.4	from the beginning, it's funny. It's like now people are catching up to this observation,
1:04.5	but of course I was so perceptive much earlier. I just found it really shocking that almost instantaneously,
1:12.0	people starting with Joe Biden went to the argument about how this decision threatens all this
1:18.0	other stuff. And if you grew up in the era that David and I grew up in rather than some larval
1:24.6	life form like yourself, with the possible section of Black voting rights, like Roe and abortion
1:33.0	rights has been like the central pillar of progressive fundraising, of progressive messaging,
1:38.3	of Democratic Party messaging. Long before Republicans started having litmus tests for
1:42.7	Supreme Court appointees, Democrats had litmus tests for being pro-Roe. And almost instantaneously,
1:52.2	the response from Joe Biden on down was this could lead to all of these terrible things, as if
1:58.8	the thing in and of itself, what Heidegger might call design, was not, I'm not sure if that's right,
2:05.9	but it sounded good, didn't it? So wait, you're dropping intellectual snobbery that you're not
2:12.4	interested in. Yeah, I mean, it does not, does not, does not, it's close, it has to do with being
2:15.5	and on being. Anyway, my whole point is like the thing in and itself, right, is should be a big
2:21.0	enough deal. And I made a lot of people angry because I compared it, look obviously I think
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