Emergency Pod: The Supreme Court Just Fired a Major Warning Shot at Roe
The Supreme Court announced today it would be taking up a case that could completely upend abortion rights.
Back in 2018, Mississippi passed a law that banned abortion at 15 weeks. It was struck down at the district level. Then the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a notoriously conservative appeals court, struck it down, citing the clear precedent of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. And if the Supreme Court agreed that this was obviously unconstitutional, they could have easily just refused to take the case.
But they finally took the case.
On this emergency episode of Boom!…
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