Boom! Lawyered

A Texas woman's friends helped her self-manage an abortion. Now, her ex-husband is suing them.In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani discuss the wrongful death lawsuit against three women who helped their friend get an abortion and leave her marriage.Not only is this alarming, but it's also part of a bigger campaign to eradicate medication abortion by any means necessary.Mentioned in this episode:What the Hell Happened to Lizelle Herrera?Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

Anti-trans advocates want to punish trans people for existing. To make life more difficult for trans kids. It’s pure cruelty for cruelty’s sake.From the hundreds of anti-trans bills being introduced in state legislatures and an ongoing fearmongering campaign by legacy media that refuses to temper their anti-trans coverage with some coverage from actual trans journalists to the right-wing extremism attempting to “ban transgenderism,” Jess and Imani have a frank conversation on the attempts to eradicate LGBTQ people from society.Mentioned in this episode:Track Trans LegislationRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

A Florida attorney is trying to free his client from jail. His client? A fetus. In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani break down a case that could open the floodgates for "fetal personhood"—but, it's a little more complicated than that.

Charter Day School in North Carolina requires girls to wear skirts in order to "preserve chivalry" based on its belief that "every girl is a fragile vessel."Is it the 1950s? In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani get into the case, Charter Day School v. Peltier, which the Supreme Court is thinking about taking—despite the fact that the Court has never weighed in on dress codes.We know what happens when the Court takes up cases they don't need to.

The future of abortion is medication abortion. Anti-abortion activists know this. That's why they're coming after abortion pills—and  fighting hard to get it banned nationwide.In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani dive into Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, the case before a Trump judge that could ban mifepristone, one of the two pills used in medication abortions.Mentioned in this episode:Abortion Gets PorkedRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

In this post-Roe world, we're at the intersection of the criminalization of pregnancy and the future of abortion access—and that's by design.In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, co-hosts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy discuss how medication abortion—which is safe, effective, and lets people manage their abortion at home if they choose—is being targeted (like it is in Alabama, where the attorney general is threatening to use drug laws to go after pregnant people).Mentioned in this episode:The Future of Abortion AccessA Gathering StormRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered is only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

What a surreal  moment. This should be the week of Roe's 50th anniversary. But like the planet Alderaan, it's been blown away by the Death Star (aka the Supreme Court). Jess and Imani discuss the future of abortion rights and what abortion access will look like in our new post-Roe reality.Mentioned in this episode:SCOTUS Gutting Native Families Will Usher In Cultural GenocideRewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means episodes like this are only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

As Jess predicts, “Conservatives will really go for it in terms of the wild restrictions and trying to push fetal ‘”personhood.'”Jess and Imani reflect on a wild and devastating year and put their prediction hats on for next year. The TL;DR: With this Court, it's not great.Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means episodes like this are only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

Jess and Imani are back with their rapid reaction analysis of Moore v. Harper, the case heard today before the Supreme Court that that could forever change how elections are run in this country. It involves the absurd independent state legislature theory that claims the elections clause of the Constitution allows state legislatures to run their federal elections with unchecked power.Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered–especially rapid reaction episodes like this one—one are only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.

In this rapid reaction episode, Jess and Imani get into today's Supreme Court oral arguments in a case about a web designer who argues free speech extends to hypothetical website design for a hypothetical same-sex couple. In other words, it's about weaponizing the First Amendment to refuse services based on personal belief. And in his questioning, Justice Samuel Alito had some things to say about Black Santa and Black kids in Klan costumes.Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that Boom! Lawyered–especially rapid reaction episodes like this one—one are only made possible by the support of listeners like you! If you can, please join our team by donating here.And sign up for The Fallout, a weekly newsletter written by Jess that’s exclusively dedicated to covering every aspect of this unprecedented moment.