The DOJ Is Bullying ACLU Attorneys and It's a Big Deal

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Imani and Jess confront an extraordinary overreach by the Department of Justice. After failing to prevent immigrant minor Jane Doe from obtaining an abortion to which she's legally entitled, the Department is now asking the Supreme Court to punish the ACLU attorneys who represent her. Why? Because they dared to do their job. Listen to learn what this might mean for those attorneys – and for all of us.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:12.0	News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is really concerned that a lot of you are not taking ghosts seriously because I've been watching a lot of
0:21.9	supernatural and I think ghosts are pretty murderous and y'all just keep buying property in the
0:26.0	woods and then wonder why shit's rattling around. I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire.
0:32.9	News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news commentary and
0:38.6	analysis on the web. And the Team Legal Podcast is part of that mission. So thank you so much for
0:44.0	subscribing and welcome to our new listeners. Yes, welcome. And this just in, we have a rare
0:51.1	clip of a training session at the Department of Justice under the Trump administration.
0:56.0	Let's take a listen.
0:57.2	What are you looking at, butthead? Hey, Biff, get all over to this guy's life preserver. Dohert thinks he's going to drown. Yeah. So, uh, how about my homework, McFly? Uh, okay, Biff. Well, I'll finish that on up tonight, and then I'll bring it over first thing tomorrow morning.
0:56.0	Good, not too early. I sleep in Sundays. Oh, my flight! Well, I'll finish that on up tonight, and then I'll bring it over first thing tomorrow
1:11.7	morning.
1:12.8	Not too early.
1:13.5	I sleep in Sundays.
1:14.4	Oh, McFly, your shoes are dying.
1:16.8	Don't be so gullible, McFly.
1:19.0	I don't want to see you in here again.
1:20.2	All right.
1:21.4	Bye, bye, bye.
1:23.4	You think we're kidding, but we're really not.
1:27.3	Later this episode, we're going to talk about how the Department of Justice is trying to
1:31.1	sanction attorneys from the ACLU for, get this, doing their damn jobs.
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