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You were smart enough not to go to law school. Good—that's what Imani Gandy is for. Baby Boom! Lawyered is the micropodcast from the co-creator of Boom! Lawyered: two or three short episodes a week on the fastest-moving legal fights for reproductive justice. Everything from abortion rights to trans discrimination to racial justice, translated by someone who sat through the three years so you didn't have to.

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#318
Friday · 11 min
What Happens If SCOTUS Orders Blue States to Respect Fetal Personhood?
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two lawsuits targeting abortion shield laws and the providers who mail abortion pills into states where abortion is banned.
#317
September 29 · 12 min
SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.
On Sept. 25, the Court told the Eighth Circuit to knock it off and stop trying to force Missouri to use a gerrymandered 2025 congressional map that Republicans drew at Trump’s urging. Imani Gandy breaks down how Missouri’s secretary of state gambled and ran the primary on the wrong map, and why the Supreme Court had to tell Republicans in Missouri three times that they can’t use the 2025 map—they have to use the 2022 map.
#316
September 25 · 8 min
Make Med School White Again
Trump’s Department of Justice says the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, discriminated against white and Asian applicants, and it’s giving the school until October 2 to enter into a voluntary resolution agreement or get sued. Imani Gandy breaks down DOJ's claims, including its attack on application essays asking students how race shaped their lives, which Chief Justice John Roberts expressly left legal when the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in Students for F
#315
September 22 · 9 min
Tierra Walker Died Under Texas's Abortion Ban. Now Her Family Is Suing.
Imani Gandy explains how the state created an abortion regime that terrifies doctors into inaction, then blames those doctors when patients die—and why that regime still doesn’t excuse that Walker’s doctors failed to save her life by providing an abortion.
#314
September 18 · 8 min
What Is the Shadow Docket and Why Should You Care?
In this Office Hours episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy answers a listener's question about the shadow docket, the emergency track where some of the Court's most consequential decisions get made all year. They’re decided quickly—and often with no explanation at all.
#313
September 15 · 8 min
Trump Is Making It Easier to Discriminate Against Black Workers (Imani Explains it All)
Imani Gandy breaks down how a law written to stop discrimination got rewired to shield it, in this Imani Explains It All episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered.
#312
September 9 · 8 min
FDA Wouldn’t Defend Its Own Mifepristone Rule in Court
Imani Gandy breaks down what actually happened at this week's oral argument in Louisiana v. FDA, why one judge called Louisiana's own strategy "self-defeating," and why the FDA's silence in that courtroom should worry you more than anything Louisiana said there.
#311
September 8 · 8 min
Louisiana Says It's ‘Blanketed’ in Contraband Mifepristone
Louisiana banned abortion and criminalized mifepristone. Now it's asking the Fifth Circuit to make sure nobody in Louisiana can get the abortion pill by mail, a fix that works only if it applies to everyone, everywhere. Imani breaks down Louisiana v. FDA ahead of Sept. 9 oral arguments.
#310
June 11 · 29 min
If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything? (And a Word to My Boom! Lawyered Fam)
The public health data was there. The reproductive justice framework was there. So why did Roe v. Wade become the center of gravity of the abortion rights movement?
#309
June 4 · 30 min
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship
The conservative legal movement is on a mission to upend the 14th Amendment.
#308
May 21 · 37 min
The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives
Conservatives have launched a campaign to redefine motherhood in culture and the law.
#307
May 7 · 58 min
Louisiana is Ground Zero for Voting Rights, Abortion Pill Access
Louisiana shows how the fight to erase Black political power is wrapped up in the fight to upend abortion access.
#306
April 30 · 37 min
The Supreme Court Gears Up For Another Unprecedented Term (Rerun)
Yes, this term really was unprecedented.
#305
April 23 · 29 min
A Colorado School Tests the Separation of Church and State
Legal advocates hope this school opens the door to taxpayer funding of religious schools.
#304
April 16 · 40 min
The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pills
Conservatives are running a multi-layered campaign to try and ban abortion pills entirely.
#303
April 2 · 38 min
Will Donald Trump Put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court?
Supreme Court retirement rumor season is here, and it’s already bananas.
#302
March 26 · 21 min
We Did the Reading. Fascism Came Anyway.
The education was real. The learning was real. So why didn't institutions move? Imani doesn't have a clean answer. That's the whole point.
#301
March 12 · 44 min
The New Parental Rights Legal Grift
The Supreme Court’s conservatives are using the shadow docket to redefine family rights at the expense of trans kids.
#300
March 5 · 39 min
There’s More Drama at the Supreme Court
Can our democracy withstand much more infighting from the Justices?
#299
February 26 · 47 min
Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz Takes You Inside the True Crime Machine
A candid conversation about case selection, empathy gaps, and why some families can’t even get their calls returned.

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