Supreme Court Overturns Roe and Casey

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🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The outcome might not have been surprising, but the official release of the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion on Friday was still earth shaking, as it overturned Roe v. Wade and a half-century of precedent on abortion. Sarah and David convened an emergency podcast, diving headfirst into the details of the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the concurrences by Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John Roberts, and the liberal dissent. What does this case mean for us and where do we go from here?

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to an emergency advisory opinions podcast.
0:24.0	I'm David French with Sarah isger and of course we're talking about dobs and nothing but dobs today.
0:34.0	Let's, the opinion is out.
0:37.0	I was wrong about what day it would come out.
0:39.0	You're wrong about what day it was out.
0:41.0	Very wrong.
0:42.0	But you were right about it was going to be a lead us opinion and substantially the same and not just substantially David.
0:49.0	So I did the red line. Remember I literally last night pod said that that was the number one thing that I was looking for.
0:57.0	I found this is not a joke.
0:59.0	So obviously he responds to the dissent.
1:01.0	He responds to the concurrence from Roberts that will get to any add the section on rational basis review about three paragraphs at the end.
1:07.0	But in terms of the draft itself and what changed.
1:10.0	I found three words.
1:12.0	Really?
1:13.0	There was no change. The three words did not change the meaning of the sentence at all. Really? It wild.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	And in a way I'm not surprised by that because the reality is there's only so many ways you're going to overrule row.
1:28.0	I guess but like wouldn't you just I don't know when I edit I'm a pretty hard editor.
1:33.0	I changed things a lot.
1:34.0	Yeah.
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