That Shoddy Abortion Pill Ruling

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon discuss the federal court rulings on the F.D.A.-approved abortion medication mifepristone, the expulsion of two Democratic representatives by the Republican-supermajority state legislature in Tennessee, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ latest ethics problem. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Adam Unikowsky for Adam’s Legal Newsletter: “Mifepristone and the rule of law, part II” Allison McCann for the New York Times: “Inside the Online Market for Overseas Abortion Pills” Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica: “Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire” Sylvie McNamara for the Washingtonian: “Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts” Chenjerai Kumanyika for This American Life: “Ghost Industrial Complex” Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Vladimir: A Novel by Julia May Jonas David: The D.C. Sing-Along; The Dropout on Hulu; Air (Amazon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Listener chatter from David Foreman: Rosemary Mosco for Audubon: “Meet the Little Brown Bird That Holds a Mirror Up to Humanity” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David and Emily discuss the Hitler memorabilia collected by Harlan Crow, Texas billionaire and friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Email your questions and chatters to [email protected] or tweet us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Make an impact this Earth Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to bring more parks to more people across the country. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Fest.
0:16.6	April 13, 2023, that Shoddy abortion pill ruling edition.
0:23.0	I'm David Plott's of CityCast, Washington DC, doing something a little bit different this
0:28.6	week.
0:29.6	I'm very excited.
0:30.6	I'm joined by Emily Baz, a lot of the New York Times magazine and Yale University
0:32.8	Law School.
0:33.8	Hello, Emily.
0:34.8	Hello, that's not the different part.
0:36.8	Here comes the different part.
0:38.0	Here comes the different part.
0:39.0	The different part is that John Dickerson of CVS Prime Time, John has COVID, unfortunately.
0:43.6	And so Emily and I are going to try something new, which is where we didn't get another
0:47.0	guest.
0:48.0	It's just going to be the two of us.
0:49.0	We're going to try two person gabb fest.
0:50.0	I don't know if we've ever done this before.
0:51.4	We'll see how it goes.
0:52.4	I'm excited.
0:53.4	All the John super fans, though, are going to turn off the show right now.
0:57.5	It's okay.
0:58.5	Come back next week.
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