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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Brusso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Today is Supreme Courts the United States expressly took away

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Speaker 1: a constus right from the American people. President Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: condemned the Supreme Court decision that stripped away the constitutional

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Speaker 1: right to abortion, while acknowledging there was little he could

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Speaker 1: do about it. The decision on Friday overturned Roe v.

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Speaker 1: Wade and wiped out the constitutional protections for abortion that

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Speaker 1: had stood for nearly a half century. The impact promises

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Speaker 1: to be transformational, likely making abortion illegal and half the

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Speaker 1: country from a court that was divided down ideological lines.

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Speaker 1: My guest is Katherine Frankie, a professor at Columbia Law

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Speaker 1: School and the director of the Center for Gender and

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Speaker 1: Sexuality Law. Broadly speaking, Catherine, what does this decision tell you? Well?

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Speaker 1: Would it tells me? Is that my mother had greater

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Speaker 1: rights to her own liberty and equality than my daughter will.

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Speaker 1: Access to abortion, access to the full range of reproductive

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Speaker 1: health care is fundamental to the idea of women's citizenship,

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Speaker 1: and for the Court to withdraw that right, and to

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Speaker 1: do it in such a snarky fashion, feels like a

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Speaker 1: punch in the face I think for women across this

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Speaker 1: country as well as other people who get pregnant, you

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Speaker 1: said snarky fashion. So that leads to my next question,

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Speaker 1: which is, can you explain the reasoning that Justice Alito

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Speaker 1: used to get to reversing Roe v. Wade. Well, he

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Speaker 1: takes the position the row was wrongly decided in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy three, that it was a weekly decided decision, poorly reasoned,

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Speaker 1: the Court now over ruling it. And he does so

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Speaker 1: by turning to thirteenth century fourteenth century legal treatises to

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Speaker 1: show the abortion was something that was considered criminal in

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Speaker 1: England that many years ago, and almost all of the

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Speaker 1: citations the Justice League, though uses are from old white

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Speaker 1: men who don't have a stake, or at least don't

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Speaker 1: have the same stake in this issue that we do today.

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Speaker 1: So it really it not only freezes the Constitution in

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Speaker 1: a pre nineteen seventies place, it actually frees the Constitution

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Speaker 1: in the thirteenth century, which I just think is appalling, appalling.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, the Supreme Court went back to the seventeen

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Speaker 1: hundreds and eighteen hundreds to declare that the Second Amendment

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Speaker 1: allows citizens to carry handguns in public. Is this the

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Speaker 1: revenge of the textualists? Well, some of these judges are

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Speaker 1: die hard textualists and some of them are opportunists. And

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Speaker 1: so when history helps you for the arguments you're going

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Speaker 1: to make, they will turn to it. You know, in

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Speaker 1: this case, what we learned in a twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: period is that states have no power and no constitutional

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Speaker 1: right to regulate guns. And at the same time, states

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Speaker 1: have the absolute power and right to regulate women's bodies.

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Speaker 1: And it makes you question what kind of citizens women

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Speaker 1: are in this country after those two decisions. Is the

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Speaker 1: majority opinion just playing wrong? Is it unprincipled? How would

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Speaker 1: you characterize it? Well, I think the majority is ideological.

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Speaker 1: Most of these members of the majority were appointed to

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Speaker 1: the Court precisely because they took this position on abortion.

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Speaker 1: There's no mistaking that fact. And what they do is

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Speaker 1: they cherry pick history. They cherry pick Supreme Court decisions

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Speaker 1: from the past to say that Row was wrongly decided.

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Speaker 1: But as the long distense in this case shows, from

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Speaker 1: three members of the court, there are parallel histories with

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Speaker 1: competing narratives about what it means to be free, what

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Speaker 1: privacy might mean in this country, and what equality might mean.

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Speaker 1: So it's not a surprise that we have a majority

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Speaker 1: What I find most shocking is the way in which

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Speaker 1: they did it, And I think Chief Justice Roberts's a

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Speaker 1: concurrence really brings that home by describing Justice Alito's opinion

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Speaker 1: as a jolt to the legal system, the descent in

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Speaker 1: which the three liberal Johnice is united says that no

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Speaker 1: one should be confident that this majority is done with

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Speaker 1: its work, and Justice Clarence Thomas and his concurrence says,

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Speaker 1: you know, we should reconsider all of the courts substantive

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Speaker 1: due process precedents like same sex marriage and contraception. Justice Alito,

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Speaker 1: in his majority opinion says, look, we're only deciding the

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Speaker 1: abortion case today. All those other matters of sex and sexuality,

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Speaker 1: whether it's to write to contraception or the decriminalization of

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Speaker 1: sodomy or same sex marriage rights, those are not implicated

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Speaker 1: in this decision. But to be honest, the way in

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Speaker 1: people who feel very strongly about this issue as we know, uh,

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Speaker 1: they prosecute the murderer of already born people. Is this

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Speaker 1: the first time the Court has taken away a constitutional

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Speaker 1: right in modern history? Well know, the Court does reverse

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Speaker 1: itself from time to time. Their both to do so,

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Speaker 1: and Justice Alito gives us a very long footnote where

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Speaker 1: he goes through the other places where the Court has

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Speaker 1: reversed itself. But this is the first time that we've

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Speaker 1: seen something is such a fundamental right central to half

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Speaker 1: the population's idea of being full citizens obliterated in such

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Speaker 1: a crude and I would say cruel way. President Biden

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Speaker 1: says it's up to Congress now to pass a law

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Speaker 1: protecting the right to abortion. We're unlikely to see that

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. Is there anything else that can be done

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Speaker 1: at this point? Vote right? This issue now is a

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Speaker 1: state by state issue. We have to show up in

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Speaker 1: in our state legislatures and protect abortion rights as contraceptive

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Speaker 1: now where this issue has been kicked by the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Professor Catherine Frankie of Columbia Law School coming up next,

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Speaker 1: the reprecautions of this decision. This is Bloomberg. Here's Justice

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Speaker 1: Samuel Alito at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in two

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Speaker 1: thousand six versus weight. It is an important precedent of

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Speaker 1: the majority opinion saying that Roe v. Wade was egregiously

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Speaker 1: wrong from the day it was decided and there is

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Speaker 1: no constitutional right to abortion. Joining me is Jennie Schanzano,

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Speaker 1: Genie put this decision in the context of Supreme Court history.

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Speaker 1: Will this day stand out? It will stand out, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think the word that keeps coming to my mind.

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Speaker 1: Isn't momentous? That is the one word that captures this.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you on, Jennie, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: That's Jennie Chanzano, Bloomberg political contributor and a professor at

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