
About this episode
Federal courts, bad incentives, culture war exhibitionism, and abortion distortion… And the week's only started. But Sarah and host emeritus are here for you to make sense of:
-Dueling abortion rulings in Texas and Washington state
-Clarence Thomas’ friendship with Harlan Crow
-Transgender cases and the winding down of shadow dockets
-Gov. Greg Abbott wants to pardon a convicted murderer under Texas' "Stand Your Ground" law
Show Notes:
-Assessing the Legal Claims in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
-Mifepristone and the rule of law
-Kluge v Brownsburg Community School Corp.
-The case of the Christian professor and pronouns
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