Supreme Court Side-Eyes Anti-Abortion Doctors
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical of a case that challenged expanded access to the abortion medication mifepristone. It was brought by anti-abortion doctors looking to roll back access, but during oral arguments both liberal and conservative justices questioned whether the group had the right to bring the case, a concept known as standing. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s legal podcast Strict Scrutiny, explained why the justices kept coming back to the issue, and what it could mean for the court’s final decision.
And in headlines: Six construction workers are presumed dead after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore, former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel got the ax from NBC News, and a New York judge issued a gag order against former President Donald Trump in his criminal hush-money trial.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 27th. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Priaka Arabindi, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.3 | The pod that's excited about the McDonald's announcement yesterday |
| 0:10.2 | that it will start selling crispy cream donuts later this year. |
| 0:14.0 | Listen, I do want to know if we can mix them into our McFlurries, |
| 0:17.5 | but more importantly, will the ice cream machine be working? |
| 0:20.9 | I want to know if I can get a burger in between the donuts so |
| 0:24.7 | we're asking the hard-hitting stuff. Someone for McDonald's please answer our |
| 0:28.1 | calls. On today's show six construction workers are presumed dead after Tuesday |
| 0:35.3 | morning's bridge collapse in Baltimore. Plus, former RNC Chair Rana McDaniel |
| 0:40.4 | was booted as an NBC news contributor |
| 0:43.0 | after just four days. |
| 0:44.6 | But first, let's talk about what happened |
| 0:46.6 | in the Supreme Court's biggest case on abortion rights |
| 0:49.3 | since the end of row. |
| 0:51.2 | Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could |
| 0:54.3 | limit the availability of one of the two drugs commonly used together in |
| 0:58.4 | medication abortions, Miffoprisstone. The case was brought by a group of anti-abortion doctors who argued that the FDA was wrong |
| 1:06.0 | when it expanded access to the drug in recent years back in 2016 and again in 2021. |
| 1:11.8 | And they want the court to roll those expansions back. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay, so first off, remind us what the FDA did. |
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