Boom! Lawyered

    Every week, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy take you on a wild ride through the latest legal battles in the fight for reproductive justice. On everything from abortion rights to trans discrimination to racial justice, Boom! Lawyered will help you get smart, stay mad, have fun, and fight back. Produced by Rewire News Group.

  • Project 2025 Is Worse Than You Think

  • Goat-Herding Nuns Are Making Their Case to SCOTUS

  • Did 'Dobbs' Break John Roberts?

  • You Asked, We Answered: AMA With Jess and Imani!

  • What's Up With the New Title IX Rule?

  • Putting Originalism Through the Wood Chipper With Madiba Dennie

  • How to Have More Fun in Repro Politics With Special Guest Lizz Winstead

  • Just Decide the EMTALA Case Already, You Cowards

  • What Actually Happened With the Mifepristone Ruling

  • Mifepristone (Kind Of, Maybe) Wins at SCOTUS

  • Adoption, Abortion, and the Politics of Parenting

  • Justice Alito's Flagrant Freaky Flag Misconduct

  • What the Hell Is Abortion Trafficking Anyway?

  • We Are in the Bad Place (Re-Release)

  • Will SCOTUS Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients?

  • Will SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon Patients Who Need Abortions?

  • Elie Mystal on Why You Don't Need to Like SCOTUS Anymore

  • How Some DeSantis Goons Decimated Abortion Access in the Southeast

  • Mifepristone’s Not-So-Bad Day at the Court

  • Two Key Issues to Watch in the High-Stakes Abortion Pill Case

  • The Fifth Circuit Just Took Us One Step Closer to Ending Birth Control Access

  • What’s With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills? (Re-Release)

  • Valentine's Week Message From Jess and Imani

  • Hello Mife, My Old Friend. Junk Science Is Attacking You Again.

  • What the Hell Exactly Happened for Abortion in Pennsylvania?

  • Why Is the Biden Administration Throwing Doctors Under the Bus?

  • Discrimination Against Trans Kids and Their Parents Is Spreading

  • Back in 'Lawyers for Fetuses' Territory

  • Happy Holidays From Jess and Imani

  • Making Sense of Texas' BS: It's Special Guest Andrea Grimes!

  • The Major Trans Rights Case SCOTUS Could Hear Next Year

  • Special Holiday Message From Imani and Jess!

  • The Originalist Case for Arming Domestic Abusers

  • This Case Could End Teens' Birth Control Access

  • Mootness Might Save Civil Rights Testing

  • Who Gets to Be a Person?

  • Jess and Imani Will Return Next Week—Live!

  • Our Big SCOTUS Preview

  • Meet Ginni Thomas, the Tenth Justice

  • The End of Affirmative Action

  • Federal Judge Body Slams DeSantis' Attacks on Trans Kids

  • Tribal Sovereignty Triumphs in Latest SCOTUS Decision

  • Jess Valenti on the Fall of 'Roe' One Year Later: "All of This Is a Tragedy"

  • Welcome to Sweaty SCOTUS Season

  • The North Carolina Abortion Ban Is a Disaster

  • The Supreme Court Is Corrupt

  • Why Is Everybody Talking About the Comstock Act?

  • We're Live in Front of an Audience!

  • Elie Mystal and Imani! 200th Episode!

  • How Gen Z Saved Abortion—and Democracy—in Wisconsin

  • The Abortion Pill Ruling Is Here

  • Will SCOTUS Help West Virginia Bully Trans Kids?

  • The Latest Sneak Attack in Texas Over Abortion Pills

  • The Political War on Trans People

  • Fetuses Don't Belong in Jail

  • The Conservative Push to Force Girls to Wear Skirts

  • Yikes—Big Pharma Could Save One of the Abortion Pills

  • What's With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills?

  • What Happens Post-Roe?

  • SCOTUS 2022: The Vibes Were Bad

  • The Case That Could Upend Democratic Elections

  • Is Anyone Surprised by Sam Alito's Trolling Anymore?

  • It's Time to Impeach Alito

  • The Supreme Court v. The People

  • SCOTUS Gutting Native Families Will Usher In Cultural Genocide

  • Say Goodbye to Race-Based Affirmative Action

  • Neil Gorsuch Is a Snake—and We Almost Missed It

  • Abortion Gets Porked

  • Justice Jackson Obliterates Originalism in Voting Rights Case

  • What Fresh Hell Will the Supreme Court Bring This Term?

  • Elie Mystal and Imani Gandy on the SCOTUS Dumpster Fire

  • Biden Finally Did Something About Abortion! Or Did He?

  • SCOTUS Brings Prayer to Your Public School

  • The Day 'Roe' Died

  • SCOTUS Declares the Border a Constitution-Free Zone

  • The SCOTUS Leak Investigation Is Heating Up

  • Wombs Are Not Meth Labs—but Some Prosecutors Treat Them the Same

  • Jess Interviews Her Ex-Work Wife, Robin Marty

  • Processing the Fallout of the Supreme Court Leak

  • We Are in the Bad Place

  • Hey Lawmakers, Be Like Connecticut

  • The 'Dobbs' Crystal Ball

  • What the Hell Happened to Lizelle Herrera?

  • History Made—Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Confirmed

  • Ginni the Insurrectionist

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing, Day Three—Celebrating Joy Amid the Nonsense

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing, Day Two—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing, Day One—The Stage Is Set

  • Conservatives Have a New Priority: Health-Care Travel Bans

  • This Supreme Court Opinion Is a Trojan Horse for Fascism

  • It's Ketanji Brown Jackson!

  • How Biden Could Make—or Break—His Legacy With Black Women

  • What the Hell Is a 'Closely Held Religious Belief'?

  • Holy Crap, Justice Breyer Is Finally Retiring!

  • The Numpties Are Marching for "Life" Again

  • A Totally Off-the-Rails Look at SCOTUS Gone Rogue

  • Rapid Reaction—Why the Supreme Court's Texas Abortion Decisions Are Infuriating

  • Prepping for the Abortion Fight of a Lifetime: An Interview With Repro Rights Attorney Jenny Ma

  • Rapid Reaction—Roe’s Last Stand at the Supreme Court

  • It's Here! The First Direct Challenge to 'Roe v. Wade'

  • Neil Gorsuch's Big, Dirty Abortion Game

  • Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court: What Happened

  • The Supreme Court Could Annihilate 'Roe v. Wade' Next Week

  • WTF Is Going on With the Texas Abortion Ban?

  • Here Comes the Supreme Court Train Wreck

  • Abortion Rights Are in Chaos. What Now?

  • The Supreme Court Ghosts Roe v. Wade

  • The Supreme Court Ends Its Term, Possibly Democracy

  • Supreme Court Protects the ACA but Not Same-Sex Couples

  • This City Wants Your Racist Uncle to Enforce Their Abortion Ban

  • Here’s What You Need to Know About the Plan to End Roe

  • Emergency Pod: The Supreme Court Just Fired a Major Warning Shot at Roe

  • Meet the Republican AGs Driving Their Party Off a Cliff

  • The Unconstitutional Case the Supreme Court Can't Stop Talking About

  • The Case of the Cursing Cheerleader Reaches the Supreme Court

  • Texas Is Trying to Take Trans Kids From Loving Parents

  • Everything You Need to Know About Georgia Voter Suppression

  • Biden Plans to Give the Courts a Much-Needed Kick in the Pants

  • Reacting to the Atlanta Shootings

  • Arkansas Woos Amy Coney Barrett With a Very Bad Ban

  • Remember When We Could Hug?

  • Supreme Court Election Conspiracies and Abortion Cases

  • How to Bankrupt the Proud Boys

  • Put Imani Gandy on the Bench, You Cowards

  • Nuke the Filibuster?

  • Hey Joe, It Feels Good to Say the 'A' Word

  • Hunting Nazis with the New Department of Justice

  • Making Sense of It All, Reality TV-Style: Roe v. Wade, Episode 5

  • Closing the Courthouse Doors: Roe v. Wade, Episode 4

  • The State’s (Creeping) Interest: Roe v. Wade, Episode 3

  • A Great Balancing Test: Roe v. Wade, Episode 2

  • Being Born Kind of Matters: Roe v. Wade, Episode 1

  • Coming January 4th-8th: Our Roe v. Wade Mini-Series Joins the Boom! Lawyered Feed

  • Our Wildest Memories of the Trump Era

  • Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Rig the Census?

  • Health Care on Trial at the Supreme Court

  • As Votes Are Counted, the Supreme Court Considers Green-Lighting Discrimination

  • Amy Coney Barrett Is Already Out of Line

  • Amy Coney Barrett Is Confirmed. Does the Law Even Matter Anymore?

  • Amy Coney Barrett Hearings, Day Three: Make Birth Control Illegal Again

  • Amy Coney Barrett Hearings, Day Two: No Notes

  • Amy Coney Barrett Hearings, Day One: None of This Is Normal

  • Expand the Courts (Without Overthinking It)

  • The Wild Resume of Amy Coney Barrett

  • Tonight, We Lost a Giant

  • Rapid Reaction: A Good Day for Theocracy at SCOTUS

  • What It's Like to Argue—and Win—at the Supreme Court

  • Rapid Reaction: A Great Decision (Plus a Roberts Time Bomb) on Abortion Access

  • Rapid Reaction: Supreme Court Protects DREAMers

  • Rapid Reaction: Supreme Court Protects LGBTQ Employees

  • How to Defund the Police

  • This School Keeps Fighting to Discriminate Against Trans Kids

  • 'Jane Roe' Lied to Us for Decades!

  • Arkansas Created a Pandemic Catch-22 to Block Abortions

  • Rapid Reaction: The Latest Birth Control Battle at the Supreme Court

  • SCOTUS Preview: The Nuns Are Coming for Your Birth Control

  • Actual Good News on COVID-19 Abortion Bans

  • Shredding the Claim that Abortion Clinic Protests Are an 'Essential Service'

  • Rapid Reaction: Texas Abortion Ban Takes Effect Immediately

  • Coronavirus and the Courts

  • Texas Is Trying to Make 'Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn' a Thing

  • June Medical Services v. Russo Arguments: Rapid Reaction

  • June Medical Services v. Russo Preview

  • Anti-Choice Lawmakers Declare the Constitution Null and Void in Indiana

  • COMING FEBRUARY 25: A new Roe v. Wade podcast series from the Boom! Lawyered team!

  • Leonard Leo's Next Evil Venture

  • Everything You Need to Know About the Abortion Rights Fight in 2020

  • Emergency Pod: The Supreme Court Rubber-Stamps Kentucky Forced Ultrasound Law

  • Will the Supreme Court Block Abortion Providers from Suing on Behalf of Their Patients?

  • 'He Performed an Abortion and Then Burned Down My House!'

  • Arkansas Is Trying to Invent the 'Abortion Deadline'

  • 'Abortion Reversal' Is B.S.

  • Bathroom Panic at the Supreme Court

  • Forced Ultrasound and the First Amendment

  • Rapid Reaction: The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether You Can Be Fired for Being Gay or Trans

  • Emergency Pod: The Supreme Court Takes June Medical Services v. Gee

  • The Supreme Court Will Decide If an Employer Can Fire Someone for Being Gay or Trans

  • The Big, Bad 2019 Abortion Rights Supreme Court Preview Episode

  • Predicting the Next Two Years

  • Will the Supreme Court Make It Easier for Abortion Protesters to Threaten People?

  • Scalia's Son May Be Trump's New Tool (to Dismantle Civil Rights)

  • The Missouri Abortion Ban You Didn’t Hear About

  • How John Roberts Helped Trump Defund Planned Parenthood

  • This New Challenge to Roe Might Be the Most Dangerous Yet

  • Trump Judge Approves Manslaughter Charges for Pregnancy Loss

  • The Hidden Secrets of Jess and Imani

  • This Lawsuit Could Bring Reproductive Justice to the Supreme Court

  • There Are Concentration Camps for Kids at the Border. Is Any of This Legal?

  • This Case Could Define Transgender Rights for a Generation

  • How the Supreme Court Could Use the Census to Bless White Power in America

  • What’s It Like to Sue the Trump Administration?

  • Clarence Thomas Just Declared War on Your Birth Control

  • What a Challenge to 'Roe' Will Actually Look Like

  • The Supreme Court Just Trashed 40 Years of Precedent and Sounded the Alarm for Roe

  • How Georgia and Kansas Reveal the Future Battleground for Abortion Rights

  • The Master Plan to Dismantle LGBTQ Rights Is in Its Endgame

  • If You're a Rapper, Your Lyrics Can Send You to Jail

  • ‘Reverse Discrimination’ Isn’t a Thing, but the Roberts Court Might Disagree

  • The GOP Is Using the Courts to Do What Congress Couldn't: Repeal the ACA

  • Mailbag Edition!

  • A Dude Is Suing an Alabama Abortion Clinic for 'Wrongful Death'...of an Embryo

  • Myth-Busting the Anti-Choice 'Born Alive' Bills

  • The Cohen Hearing vs. the Kavanaugh Hearings

  • Clarence Thomas Wants to Blow Up Defamation Law

  • Federal Funding to Discriminate?

  • The John Roberts Abortion Conundrum...Resolved?

  • The Supreme Court Head Fake on Abortion in Louisiana

  • The John Roberts Abortion Conundrum

  • Day Two of William Barr’s Confirmation Hearings

  • Day One of William Barr's Confirmation Hearings

  • Bye-Bye, Birth Control Benefit?

  • Recapping the Wild Ride of 2018

  • Why Clarence Thomas Has a Case of the Sads

  • Why Aren't LGBTQ People Protected in the Workplace?

  • The Ohio Abortion Ban Saga Is Bananas

  • Midterm Results and the Voting Rights Battles That Will Follow

  • Will Voter Suppression Swing the 2018 Midterms?

  • They're Coming for Birthright Citizenship

  • Trailer: Unladylike

  • Meet the Official Who May Lead the Attack on Transgender Rights

  • Kavanaugh Confirmed. Now What?

  • Ford Shines, Kavanaugh Whines

  • Meet the Awful Person Who Could Take Over the Mueller Investigation

  • The Kavanaugh Allegations

  • Kavanaugh Day 4: Witness

  • Kavanaugh Day 3: Exposed

  • Kavanaugh Day 2: Stolen Emails?

  • Kavanaugh Day 1: Changing the Rules

  • What Are Republicans Hiding in Kavanaugh's Documents?

  • Emergency Pod on Brett Kavanaugh Nomination

  • Who Can Stop Trump's Court Takeover?

  • Emergency Pod #2—Justice Kennedy Is Retiring

  • Emergency Pod on Muslim Ban and CPC Decisions

  • Pardon Me?

  • Sonia Sotomayor Is an Absolute Boss

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

  • BREAKING: Today's SCOTUS Arguments in NIFLA v. Becerra

  • Does the First Amendment Allow CPCs to Lie to Pregnant People?

  • The Racist Ideology Neil Gorsuch Will Use to Break Unions

  • Pregnant and Going to the Doctor? You Might End Up in Jail

  • Every Terrible Anti-Choice Bill Coming to a State Near You

  • Hello! It's 2018 and Your Right to Vote Has Been Canceled

  • 'The Handmaid’s Tale' Is Coming to Life

  • Bakers and Bare Breasts Will Determine the Limits of Free Speech

  • Eggs Are Not People and Your Sperm Is Not Sacred

  • Beckett Lansbury and Ally Sheedy on How to Be a Better Ally to Trans People

  • How the 14th Amendment Protects Your Freedom to Get Laid

  • The Government Can Make Me Say WHAT?

  • Four Ways Neil Gorsuch Could Ruin Your Life

  • Coming 9/21: Boom! Lawyered

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