Baby Boom! Lawyered

Make Med School White Again

Trump's Justice Department says UCSF's medical school discriminated against white and Asian applicants, and it's giving the school until October 2 to negotiate or get sue

Tierra Walker Died Under Texas's Abortion Ban. Now Her Family Is Suing.

Tierra Walker knew her pregnancy could kill her, so she asked about an abortion. Not one of the more than 90 doctors who saw Walker offered her abortion care.  Now her f

What Is the Shadow Docket and Why Should You Care?

The new Supreme Court term doesn't start until October, so why has the Court been issuing important rulings while it's supposed to be on break?  In this Office Hours epi

Trump Is Making It Easier to Discriminate Against Black Workers (Imani Explains it All)

Disparate impact may sound boring. It isn't. It's the rule the Supreme Court established in 1971 to catch discrimination that doesn't announce itself. Fifty-four years l

FDA Wouldn’t Defend Its Own Mifepristone Rule in Court

On Wednesday Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the abortion drug mifepristone from being mailed to patients by reinstating a rule that says you h

Louisiana Says It's ‘Blanketed’ in Contraband Mifepristone

A pill doesn't care about state lines. Louisiana does—apparently a lot. Welcome to the first-ever episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered. Imani Gandy gets into Louisiana v. FDA,

If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything? (And a Word to My Boom! Lawyered Fam)

Roe v. Wade was never enough. Reproductive justice advocates have been saying that for decades. So why did so much of the reproductive rights movement organize itself aro

Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship

Imani and Jess are off this week, but before the Supreme Court issues its birthright citizenship ruling in Trump v. Barbara, revisit this conversation with Pregnancy Just

The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives

In this episode, Imani and Jess unpack the Supreme Court’s order on mifepristone access and explain where it fits in the Trump administration’s crusade to redefine mother

Louisiana is Ground Zero for Voting Rights, Abortion Pill Access

In this episode, Imani and Jess unpack the historic attack on voting rights from the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais and explain what’s next from the Court on the f

The Supreme Court Gears Up For Another Unprecedented Term (Rerun)

The Supreme Court closed out arguments for the term this week. Jess and Imani are out, but this episode showcases all the biggest cases of the term. Stay tuned for deep d

A Colorado School Tests the Separation of Church and State

Imani and Jess are off this week, but in this episode republished from 2025, Imani and Jess discuss a new school launched in Colorado that’s designed to erase the separat

The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pills

In this episode, Imani and Jess unpack the conservative legal movement’s latest attacks on medication abortion, from courthouses to state legislatures across the country—

Will Donald Trump Put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court?

In this episode, Imani and Jess dive into the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy decision, birthright citizenship oral arguments, and rumours that President Donald Trump

We Did the Reading. Fascism Came Anyway.

The most informed progressive public in American history is watching a fascist takeover in real time. In her first solo episode, Imani Gandy wants to know why. From Black

The New Parental Rights Legal Grift

In this episode, Imani and Jess break down the latest anti-trans decision from the Supreme Court, Mirabelli v. Bonta and explain how the conservative legal movement is re

There’s More Drama at the Supreme Court

In this episode! Imani and Jess spill the tea on the recent Supreme Court drama, from infighting among the justices in the Trump tariff decision, to retirement rumours, a

Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz Takes You Inside the True Crime Machine

In part two of her series on true crime and disability, Imani Gandy interviews Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz about true crime as a machine that decides whose sto

What’s Going On In the Fight Over Abortion Pills

In this episode, Imani and Jess walk through the current legal threats to medication abortion access and explain how the national abortion landscape could be reshaped ent

Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship

Imani and Jess are off this week, but in this episode republished from 2024 they explain the spurious new legal arguments underpinning the conservative push to end birthr