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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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(Classic) SCOTUS Helps Black People in Missouri (Don't Get Used to It)
The Supreme Court did something nice for Black voters. I’m as shocked as you are. 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 Republican
Trump Can't Stop Interfering with the Midterm Elections
Republicans are cratering in the polls, so Trump is doing what he knows best: Threats. Intimidation. Promises to jail election officials and purge supposed noncitizens from the voter rolls. His problem? Noncitizens voting isn’t a widespread
Yes on 3, Again: Missouri’s Abortion Ban in Disguise
Missouri Republicans want abortion rights out of the state constitution—so they wrote an amendment that restricts abortion and allows the legislature to put up more barriers to care, and are selling it to voters as a list of times abortion
Why Missouri's Amendment 3 Could Cost Teens a Way Around Parental Consent
Missouri voters are being asked to vote on abortion rights in the midterms—again—because Republicans can’t take no for an answer. In 2024, voters enshrined the right to reproductive freedom, including abortion through fetal viability, in th
Why a Fetal Viability Ban is Still Just a Ban
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/30/fetal-viability-missouri-abortion-amendment/ Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires. Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. If Baby Boom! Lawyered helps you understand wh
Texas’s Abortion Pill Bounty Law Comes for Kristan Hawkins
Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins pushed hard for Texas’ House Bill 7, a “bounty hunter law” that allows total strangers to sue anyone who mails or hands over abortion pills. Then, she went to Texas and went undercover, reportedly
Sam Alito Is Looking for the Guy Who Leaked Dobbs
Sam Alito keeps saying he has a pretty good idea who leaked the Dobbs draft but he still won’t share it. Funny. Imani has a suspect too: Sam Alito. From the toothless investigation into who leaked the Dobbs decision and the alleged leak of
What the Hell is Fetal Personhood?
One of our listeners, Contessa, wants to know what the hell fetal personhood is. Short answer: It’s the anti-choice movement’s push to give fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses a legal right to life, which turns pregnancy into a conflict b
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. Imani examines how the states use fetal personhood to describe their all
SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.
The Supreme Court did something nice for Black voters. I’m as shocked as you are. 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 Republican
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 agreemen
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 family is suing the doctors, hospitals, and Texas officials who failed he
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 episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy answers a listener's question a
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 later, the EEOC, acting on Trump's executive order, walked away from tha
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 have to show up in person to get it. But if it wins, Louisiana told the
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, the case that could result in a ban on mailed mifepristone for everyon
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 around protecting Roe anyway? In this solo episode, Imani Gandy explores
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 Justice President Lourdes Rivera on how the movement trying to deny citize
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 motherhood nationwide. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires. Episodes like
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 fight to block mifepristone access. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspir
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 dives on the decisions coming up in future episodes. Expert Repro Journ
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 separation of church and state in public education. They also explain why the
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—including efforts to categorize mailing pills as “drug trafficking.” E
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 has his eye on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for his next Supreme Court nominati
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 Twitter to the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act dying in the Sena
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 rewriting parental rights law from the shadow docket of the Supreme Cour
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, and why it is more than political theater when the president attacks th
Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz Takes You Inside the True Crime Machine
In part two of herseries (https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/29/in-mercys-shadow-the-mercy-narrative-in-true-crime-podcast/) on true crime and disability, Imani Gandy interviews Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz about true crime as a
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 entirely by spring. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires. Episodes like
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 birthright citizenship. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires. Episodes like
