Why Chief Justice Roberts Just Protected Abortion Rights
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. |
| 0:02.2 | This is The Daily. |
| 0:03.7 | Today, from the moment he was confirmed, |
| 0:13.7 | Chief Justice John Roberts has been a reliable conservative |
| 0:18.0 | on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:19.7 | So why did he just side with the Court's liberal members |
| 0:23.5 | to preserve abortion rights in Louisiana? |
| 0:33.2 | It's Tuesday, February 12. |
| 0:38.4 | Adam Lipteck, tell us about this abortion case in Louisiana. |
| 0:42.5 | So the question in the case is whether a Louisiana law |
| 0:46.9 | that would severely restrict abortion in the state |
| 0:49.6 | should be allowed to go into effect. |
| 0:51.7 | It was a 2014 law enacted by Louisiana's Republican-dominated |
| 0:56.6 | legislature. |
| 0:57.8 | Opponents of the law say that if it does go into effect, |
| 1:00.7 | the number of clinics in the state will be reduced to one. |
| 1:03.7 | The number of doctors authorized to perform abortion |
| 1:06.3 | in the state will be reduced to one. |
| 1:08.5 | And they go to the court on an emergency application |
| 1:11.5 | and say, please stop this law from going into effect. |
| 1:14.7 | At least long enough for us to come to you guys |
| 1:17.0 | and argue about why the law violates the Constitutional |
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