The Leak & Battle Over Abortion (w/ Josh Gerstein & Carolyn Shapiro)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Politico dropped a bombshell story that stung the political and legal world last week after obtaining a leaked draft opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would appear to be an overturning of Roe v Wade, the 1973 opinion that gave women the constitutional right to abortion. The story was astonishing on multiple levels. It showed that a majority of the court was in fact preparing to discard a core freedom that has been relied on by American women for nearly half a century. But it was also the first time anybody can remember when a draft opinion report had been leaked and published before the court had announced it, making POLITICO's story the mega-scoop of the year if not decade. Josh Gerstein, one of two POLITICO reporters who broke the story, joins to discuss. Then, Carolyn Shapiro, a former clerk to retiring Justice Stephen Breyer weighs in on how the court has operated and may operate differently in the future.
GUESTS:
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein), Senior Legal Affairs Reporter, POLITICO
- Carolyn Shapiro (@cshaplaw), Law prof & co-director, @ISCOTUS @ChicagoKentLaw
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Yahoo News/YouGov Poll on the current confidence of Supreme Court - Here.
- Yahoo News piece the day the leak was reported - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Exclusive, Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights draft opinion shows. |
| 0:08.8 | So declared the headline in political last week for a bombshell story that stunned the |
| 0:14.0 | political and legal worlds. |
| 0:16.4 | The website had gotten hold of a 98 page draft opinion written by Supreme Court Justice |
| 0:21.6 | Samuel Alito revealing that a majority of five justices, at least as of last February, |
| 0:28.2 | had voted to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 opinion that gave women a constitutional |
| 0:35.2 | right to abortion. |
| 0:37.1 | The story was astonishing on multiple levels. |
| 0:39.8 | It showed that a majority of the court was in fact preparing to discard a court freedom |
| 0:44.2 | that has been relied on by American women for nearly half a century. |
| 0:48.3 | But it was also the first time anybody can remember when a draft opinion court had been |
| 0:52.6 | leaked and published before the court had announced it, making political story the mega-scoot |
| 0:59.2 | of the year if not the decade. |
| 1:01.8 | We'll talk to Josh Gerstein, one of two political reporters who broke the story, and then |
| 1:06.5 | we'll talk to Carolyn Shapiro, a former clerk to retiring just as Stephen Breyer about |
| 1:11.0 | what the link tells us about how the court has operated and may operate differently in |
| 1:16.4 | the future on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:20.2 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United |
| 1:27.7 | States. |
| 1:28.7 | I will to the best of my building. |
| 1:30.9 | Reserve, protect and defend. |
| 1:33.1 | Constitution of the United States. |
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