What’s Left of Roe v. Wade?

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🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Melissa Murray of NYU School of Law and Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker for a round table discussion of the big abortion case of the term, why Chief Justice John Roberts chose to strike down the Louisiana abortion law in June Medical Services LLC v Russo, and why opinion about Roberts’ opinion seems to be divided along very gendered lines.

In the Slate Plus segment, Dahlia and Mark Joseph Stern break down the other big opinions of the week and their implications for executive power and the separation of church and state. Finally, they look ahead to what remains of the term. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.

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0:00.0	I don't think he's becoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but he does not appear to be the same John Roberts as he was two, five, ten years ago.
0:12.8	Go back and find some better law that's different, that's not squarely on point with the precedent we decided four years ago.
0:22.3	And then you'll see that John Roberts you've known and loved for generation.
0:32.0	Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court. There's a lot you may have heard going on at the Supreme Court. And we're going to focus on that today. But I wanted to just offer a little sidebar that the high court stepped in Thursday night to block a judicial order in Alabama that would have allowed some
0:55.6	curbside voting. And they also stepped in to slow walk a Texas challenge to that state's
1:02.5	mail-in voting rules during the pandemic. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there are probably
1:09.0	five justices at the high Court who are not all that worried
1:12.2	about how COVID is going to distort the November elections. And look, having spent a month
1:19.2	pre-COVID on this show talking about voting in the courts, it's just worth a little pause
1:24.5	to think about that. The court did not end the 2019 term on the last
1:29.3	day of June this year, as it always does. There are still big, big cases that are going to come
1:34.8	down on Monday and for some indeterminate number of days thereafter. Later on in this show,
1:41.6	Slate Plus members can join me and Mark Joseph Stern to thrash out
1:45.8	the other significant opinions that came down this week, the implications for executive power
1:51.6	and separation of church and state of some of the big ticket cases that did come down.
1:58.0	Friends, if you are not yet a Slate Plus member, I want to urge you to check it out.
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2:15.6	members-only content like our extra special SCOTUS rundown with Mark Joseph Stern.
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2:33.5	And truly, we thank you. We are going to zero in on
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