Supreme Court Legal Analysis
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, host of the CAFE podcast "Up Against The Mob," former New Jersey and federal prosecutor and author of Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It (Harper, 2023), offers legal analysis of two cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear, on the abortion pill and the law used to charge people with January 6th-related offenses.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc, good morning everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. |
| 0:12.8 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.1 | We want to catch up on and dig into some big developments |
| 0:17.3 | at the Supreme Court in recent days. |
| 0:19.7 | We've got CNN, senior legal analyst E.L. |
| 0:22.1 | Hoding, a former New Jersey and federal prosecutor, to help |
| 0:25.7 | us go beyond the headlines on the following. |
| 0:28.8 | The court has accepted its biggest abortion rights case since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe versus Wade, |
| 0:35.0 | it's about how easily people should be allowed to get the abortion pill, |
| 0:40.0 | Mifapristone. Remember most abortions, an actual majority of abortions these days in the United States |
| 0:45.8 | are through medication, not surgery. Depending on how the court rules, this could also be the first |
| 0:51.2 | version of a national limit on abortion rights limiting access even in the current legal states. |
| 0:58.0 | Then there are two Trump trial developments at the Supreme Court just in the last few days. |
| 1:03.8 | Yesterday it accepted a case that could nullify some of the main January 6th charges against |
| 1:09.2 | Trump, those that |
| 1:13.3 | charge him and a lot of the rioters with obstructing an official proceeding. |
| 1:15.2 | Now, from what I'm reading the claim, believe it or not, |
| 1:19.4 | is that rioting doesn't count as a means of obstruct in Congress. |
| 1:24.0 | What? |
| 1:24.7 | We'll see what Elie Hone thinks about that. |
| 1:27.8 | And Special Counsel Jack Smith has leapfrogged over some lower courts and asked the Supreme Court to rule directly on the basic question |
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