WEBVTT - Ep 03: Genteel Southern Ladies 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:13.440 From iHeart Podcasts, This is Supreme, The Battle for. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.119 Row eighteen, Roll Against. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.520 Wait, starring Maya Hawk and William H. Macy. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.440 Whenever you are ready, mister Chief Justice, and may have 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.160 pleased the Court. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.680 Episode three, Genteel Southern Ladies. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.120 Morning, Sarah, Ron, what time is it? 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.640 I have feel like I was drugged. I haven't slept 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:46.600 that deep in months. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.920 Yeah, I know, very confusing sensation. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.800 Wake up in the middle of the nine find my 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.440 wife actually sleeping next to me. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.960 You know the feeling when you wake up from a 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.640 real deep sleep and you're not sure if you're still dreaming. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.560 You're not dreaming, Sarah. You won? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.919 But how Lynna and I've made so many mistakes? 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:08.559 Why? 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.040 Because you only put Da Wade's name on the suit, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.520 So your case may not have been as big an 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.640 impact as it could have. But who cares. You wanted 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.760 legal experience, You got it and you won your first case. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.360 Come on, downstairs, folder is almost. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.640 Ready, so is the bacon. From the smell of it. 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.240 Oh, shoot the bacon. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:29.400 Come on? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.839 Did you put cinnamon in the coffee grounds again? Love 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.600 that wrong? 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.000 Weddington Residents, missus Weddington, Hello, congratulations on your victory. Have 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.160 time for a few questions. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.040 Thank you kindly. I'm actually just getting going with my 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.560 day here. Sorry, sir, can you hold on a minute. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.480 My husband just walked to in in the morning papers. Yeah, sure, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.520 let me see Ron. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.320 Don't even look at them, Sarah. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.359 Ridiculous headlines. What passes for journalism these days? 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:16.200 Can genteel southern ladies be good lawyers? Question mark? Question mark? 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:17.639 This is insulting. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.480 I agree they think your genteel Ron. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.520 I'm furious. Okay, could they be any more condescending? All 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.440 the other papers are just as dismissive. They should be 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.160 singing your praises, Sarah. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:35.200 Who's on the phone, Oh, a reporter calling you at 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.680 home at this hour? 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.800 What outlet he didn't say? Uh? Sorry, sir? What paper 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:42.640 did you say you worked for? 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:46.160 Who the hell is this? 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.120 Sarah? Hang up? 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.800 You think you've changed anything, Lady, you haven't done shit, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.240 you stupid bitch. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:53.760 You're gonna burn an. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.160 Hell for this, Sarah hanging up? 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:06.080 Jesus, saw do is your office? 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.040 Look at it's not Saint Paul anymore, Sally. We called 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.160 them chambers here. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:12.160 I love that. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.679 It's totally surreal. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.840 Your mother hung that oil painting of the dogs above 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:17.400 my desk. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.880 Ah, that's embarrassing. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.840 It's a small space really, just big enough for a 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.639 tiny couch and a large desk. But ready to be impressed. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.480 Oliver Wendell Holmes occupied these chambers for his entire tenure. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.880 Really, that's amazing. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.760 I thought you'd be impressed. Your sister's on the other. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.280 Hand, Oh please, Susie thinks Oliver Wendell Holmes is too 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.520 bad fighting Moriarty to be a judge. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.000 How are the other justices being anyone hazing you? 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.000 Well, no one's paddled me just yet, if that's what 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.840 you're asking. But I think Warren's pleased with me so far. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:55.360 I'm fitting in. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.000 Well, am I interrupted? 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.080 No, not at all? Come in, Come in, Sally, I 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.080 need to go the good martiall Chess walked in. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.480 Oh oh gotcha. Elvis Presley just walked into my room, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.080 so I actually got to go too. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:10.520 Okay, then. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:13.160 They're good. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.360 Take a seat now, just pass it by. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.400 Thought I might be able. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:17.680 To help out. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:18.920 How's that exactly? 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.279 You're doing fine so far, Harry, You're getting the run 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.159 of the place. Now it's time to be your own man. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.640 I'm not sure I know what you mean sure. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.080 You do, Harry. You don't owe anything to anybody, not 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:38.640 the chief, not the president, not anyone. Remember, you're here 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.120 till you retire or drop dead. That comes with the 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.159 freedom to piss off anybody you like. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:45.960 I'm aware of that. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.960 They're good. Have I done something to offend you? 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.359 I didn't mean to overhear your call with your daughter 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.359 just now, But take it from me, in a lifetime's 0:04:55.360 --> 0:05:01.599 worth of experience, fitting in is overrated as hell. I'll 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:02.600 see you, Harry. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.680 You should see the mountain of letters we're getting, Sarah. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.160 People are inspired by your victory. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.480 Some are Others are calling our house today am to 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:21.960 harass me. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.560 Well, that just means you're a woman who did her job. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:24.880 Well. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.719 Hell, Sarah, you got a unanimous verdict. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.200 You got the judges to admit the freedom to choose 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.160 should be a fundamental right. Oh, we've set up an 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.440 interview for you tomorrow with the Texas Tribune. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.600 Oh okay, I'll check with Linda. Make sure she's free. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.960 No, Sarah, just you. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.520 I don't understand. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.880 Well, the group discussed it. We want you to be 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.520 lead attorney from here on out, sole lead attorney. Hold 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.320 on me now, Linda is terrific. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.680 Linda is a big part of the reason we won 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.200 be her research, her annal. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.920 Which is why she's perfect for a behind the scenes role. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.840 She didn't even comb her hair before arguments. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.239 Sarah arguments we want as a team anyway. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.839 That's not true or fair. She had a run in 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.000 her stockings. She looked completely unkempt and unprofessional. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.520 I see, so you hired me from my blonde hair 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.200 and blue eyes. This is a beauty contest, Sarah. Grow up. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.440 Linda can be your second chair, but you need to 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.320 be the face we're going to send you on interviews. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 Make sure people see you. The next step is crucial. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.920 What next step? There's no next step. We only have 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.880 to go back to court if Texas appeals be they 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.240 almost certainly won't, so the legislature will just try to 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.960 write a new law to get around the verdict. This 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.760 case's day in court is over. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.600 But fine. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:07:07.920 If journalists want to ask me questions, I'll answer them. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.120 Why is all my stuff in a box on my desk, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:10.760 mister Morton? 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.720 I can't have political protests in my office, Sarah. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.680 It's never been in your office, mister Morton. It wasn't 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.960 a Dallas courthouse, and now it's not anywhere I need 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.080 this job. This salary damnage is done. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.280 Dear, you saw the post this morning? 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.200 I did. Is it not being a life in stock punishment? Enough? 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.560 Could have thought of that before? You know how much 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.480 I adore you, Sarah. But I don't have a choice. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.840 Here, mister Morton. I think this is just a big misunderstanding. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.800 This isn't about the movement for me. This was a 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.440 way to build my legal resume. Wouldn't you rather have 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.640 a successful attorney working here than someone who can just 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.680 type fast? Anyway, it's over now, I'm afraid it is Sarah. Sarah, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.360 come quick? What is it? They're talking about your case 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:56.760 on TV? 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:02.520 Good luck, Dear, nothing changes. LETNA be real clear about that. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.560 Who is that on TV? 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.840 It's Henry Wade, Sarah, he's talking about your case? 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.160 What the hell is the district attorney talking about it? 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:14.320 Forsh My office will continue to arrest, try and convict abortionist, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.160 just as we've always done, despite what three liberal judges 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:18.760 might prefer. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.440 What did he just say, Sarah? 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.560 Out your phone's ringing? 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:28.480 That's someone else's problem. Now I don't work here anymore, Sarah. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.600 It's your mother on the phone. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:36.560 I don't believe this. I'll get the extension. Mom. I 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:43.320 can't talk right now, Mom slowed down. How many more 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.120 prisoners do daddy lose? Mom? I gotta call you back, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:48.559 mister Wade. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.560 Are you saying you intend to simply ignore the Dallas verdict? 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.679 I'm saying the opinion of the Fifth Circuit Democrat court 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.120 means about as much to me as the opinion of 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.280 my five year old grandsons. So no, we won't be enforcing. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.280 It'll be business as usual. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.800 Sarah. What does this mean for your case? 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.800 Ron, Honey, would you bring me the sweet Tea. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:27.920 Picture and the Texas Monthly and the New Vogue. You 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.000 did this all by yourself, Tom Li, Linda, get out 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.040 of here. I'm in the dang tub. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.280 Answer me first. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.720 I don't even know what the heck you're talking about. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:42.360 Sarah, the beautiful feast behind the movement, Sarah crusading lead attorney, Sarah, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.640 the woman behind Roe. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.640 I thought we were partner, Sarah, we are. Linda, you told. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.839 Those women from the group you'd beat the public face. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.680 I shoot, be suggested it might be best for the case. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.640 If you don't think I realize we have different strengths. Sarah. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.920 I want what's best for the case too, but you 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.240 should have talked to me first. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.080 The case is over, Linda, Henry Wade isn't even enforcing 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.560 the verdict. You want co credit on this mess by 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:20.160 all means. They appealed, Sarah appealed where there's no where 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.440 realistic for them to go. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:36.000 It's over, yeah, you, but it's over, Linda. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.480 Sarah, You okay? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.080 And where the heck were you wrong hiding in the kitchen? Well, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:45.640 thanks for that. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:51.600 Linda will cool off, she will, all right, honey, I. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.920 Swear on This is the strangest sort of winning I've 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:54.320 ever done. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.000 I brought wine instead of tea, and the magazines. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.480 And man and they say chivalry is dad. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.240 Would you hate me if I said I was a 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.079 little glad it's over. It'll be nice. Set my wife again. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.400 Care for what you wish for. Thanks for this, you'll. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.400 Find another job, something even better, and we'll get back 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.240 to normal. Our life wasn't so bad, wasn't. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.240 I don't deserve you wrong? 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.480 Here you go, and a bunch more fan letters. Those 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:25.079 are cheer. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:47.720 Yep, Jesus Christ. 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.440 Serah, all right, what is it? 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.200 It's a pile of death threats. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:12:23.720 Ron screwed it, Harry. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.800 I just read your memo on the McGreevy case. Well done, kid, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.880 I'm told Nixon is thrilled. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:35.160 Warren, sit down a second. The President isn't who I'm 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:40.880 concerned with, Warren, christ what is it now? The McGreevy memo. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.920 That's the only accomplishment to my name. I've been completely 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.600 ineffective on the court so far. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.559 You're still getting your feet Wetry. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.160 Warren. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.720 You've assigned me three minor cases, and I haven't been 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.400 able to gather a single sustainable majority. Our colleagues resent 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.640 my friendship with you. Who gives a crap? I just 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.680 told you he gives a crap, Warren. The seven other 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.080 justices of the United States Supreme Court actually make it eight. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:07.880 Harry. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.520 Let me help you understand what no one told me 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.320 when I got on the court. You think being here 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.199 is about being Solomon, being wise. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.280 It's not. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.800 It's about what everything else in life is about. Politics. Politics. Hell, yes, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.840 you were never part of the party delegation like I was, Harry, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.280 But that's what this job is, crafting decisions so you 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.440 can win the votes of the other justices. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.800 And here I was thinking it was about the law. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.000 You went to Harvard, Harry, and I went to night school. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.240 You know how we both ended up on the Supreme Court. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:42.679 Politics. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.880 Damn right. This is dog fighting, plain and simple. Sooner 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.880 you learn that, easier life will be. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.400 I had one of my clerks when the numbers woren. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.359 Guess how often I've voted with you since I got confirmed. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.400 I don't really care, Harry, in ninety three point five 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:00.400 percent of the time. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.280 Who's putting all this in your ear? 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.000 Bill Thurgood? 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.640 They're just annoyed the decisions haven't been going their way lately. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.000 They think I'm your sidekick, Warren, that I'm out of 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.439 my depth and running to my best friend for cover. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.360 And what do you think? I think there's some of 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:17.720 the wisest men in the country. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.280 Put them out of your mind, Harry. Now, let me 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.800 see you get a majority together on that little tax 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.680 exemption case by Monday. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:25.120 All right? 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.040 And remember politics. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.920 Warren, Warren, hold on, how does Nixon even know about 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.480 my vote on the law and order cases? They haven't 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.160 been announced yet. You're not discussing our work at the 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:38.960 White House, are you? 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.800 Weddington Residents Sarah b let me call you back. I 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.000 got a dozen things. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.280 I've been taken under surveillance. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.400 Excuse me. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.240 They're watching me, Sarah, They're watching all of us. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:02.800 I'm sure you're being paranoid. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.920 Be damn't being watched too. Soorahpup, but doesn't other women 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.400 in the group. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.680 I don't understand taking under surveillance by who who? 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:11.240 Do you think? 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.200 Honestly, b I feel like we made our fair share 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:14.880 of enemies. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.160 Yeah, well this is Nixon's FBI. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.200 Oh please, Richard Nixon is not concerned with me. He's 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.120 busy fighting a war for God's sake. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.760 So were we? Sarah? Go to your window. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.200 What am I looking for? 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:28.560 You'll know when you see it. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:36.000 I don't see anything, Be just Sarah, uh huh, Come here, sick. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.400 Bacon smells amazing. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.480 Honey, look outside. I don't recognize that car across the street. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.880 Which one, the brown one with the two men sitting 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.760 it close? 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.040 You're blind, Sarah, b. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.880 I don't think that's the FBI. FBI agents are tall 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.000 and handsome, and those look like like devians. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.880 Yeah, because if there's two words to describe j Edgar Hoover, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.040 it's tall and handsome. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.080 Jesus hey, it's just a smoke alarm from the bacon. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.160 I'll take care of her. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.760 Sarah, get away from the window. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:08.760 They're probably just friends of the neighbors. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.960 The thumb horss uh huh. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.160 The only thing is I can't be sure, but I 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.840 think maybe that car was there last night too. I 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.240 think I noticed it when I came in. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.280 Jesus, I'll call you right back. I need to warn Linda. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.920 I'll just go out there and ask them to leave. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.480 You'll do no such thing. We don't know who they are. Wrong. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.160 They could be behind some of the death threats. Those 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.320 protesters are dangerous. They could have guns. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.440 It's Dallas, Sarah, who doesn't have a gun. I'm sure 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:44.200 they're harmless. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.480 Rong. Imagine you're someone who believes Lafe begins a conception 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.280 every child in its mother's womb is a person who 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.160 just hasn't learned a roller skate yet. If you believe that, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.040 then you have to think that what I'm doing is 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.320 attempted to commit mass murder on a scale no one's 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.000 conceived of since Gangh has come. If you really believe that, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.960 deep in your soul, what wouldn't you do to me? 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.040 I gotta call. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.359 Linda all right, I'll take over the stove. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.000 No, I don't need a second crisis in this house. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:28.119 Go take a shower. I'm okay. Hello, Linda, it's Sarah. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:28.719 Don't hang up. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.440 So you heard the news that. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.119 We're being watched? Yeah, be called. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.639 What are you talking about? 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.120 I got another stack of death threats in the mail? 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:40.840 You okay, Sarah. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:42.560 Someone's at the front door, Linda. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.680 If you're scared, don't answer it. Call the police. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.680 Ruh, shoot, hold on, Linda. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:56.840 Sarah, be careful, Sarah Weddington. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:57.879 Who are you? 0:17:58.440 --> 0:17:59.680 Are you Sarah Weddington? 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:06.880 Linda? You still there? 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:07.840 Everything? Okay? 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.240 I don't know I slammed the door in someone's face. Ron, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:12.000 hurry up in. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.000 There, Sarah. Call the police if you're nervous. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.560 Linda. Wait, you have to stop being mad at me. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.640 Who cares If they want me to be the face 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.320 of the case From here on out, it's just going 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.280 to be paperwork. Henry Wade is refusing to obey the verdict, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.040 but technically we won, so we can't appeal. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.040 You kept the mail today, Sarah. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.040 I'm not sure why. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.399 It's going to be a telegram in there? You should 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:33.960 open it. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.000 Linda, what are you talking. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.639 About goodbye Sarah. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.840 Anyway, Telegrams don't come in the mail in this part 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:49.520 of the city. They come by. Hey, you wait. 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.679 You slam the door in my face, lady. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.119 I know, I thought you were alludative harasser. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.240 Between the two of us. I think that describes you. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:00.639 At the moment. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.880 I know, but you're not your. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.240 You're I'm from Western Union. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:07.560 You have a telegram for me? 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.320 I should make you come all the way down to 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:22.560 the store. You know, I'm too damn nice here, Holy Marry. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.719 Mother of God, thank you, thank you. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.440 Ron Ron, get out here, Sarah. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:32.000 You're right. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:33.400 What's wrong? 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.480 Ron Ron? Read the letter? 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.520 What is it? Another death threat? 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.920 No, it's scarier than that. Read it. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.560 Please be advised. The case of Jane Rovy Henry Wade 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:49.760 has been accepted. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.879 For argument by the Supreme Court of the United States 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:53.000 of America. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:54.760 How is this possible? 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.880 Must be because Wade said he keep arresting doctors. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:19:59.520 What do you mean? 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.879 Usually it takes years for a case to get to 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.640 the Supreme Court. But they can't just allow local officials 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.399 to disobey a lower court's orders. So we've bypassed all 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.240 the other courts and gone right to the top. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.639 Holy hell, Sarah, we're going to Washington. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.359 This is amazing. You think that you can handle a 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:23.879 busy wife a little longer. 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:43.199 Okay, I don't want to be a broken record, but 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.879 this is a giant mistake. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.640 Ladies, we shouldn't even be entertaining this. We know how 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:49.119 you feel. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:49.440 Deb. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.400 You made yourself very clear, over and over and over again. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.800 What time is he supposed to be here? Bee? He's late, 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:55.679 isn't he. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.000 He'll be here, Sarah before you finish your burger. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.240 He's thirty minutes late, Sarah. First impressions matter. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.160 He's entitled to keep us waiting. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:03.440 Deb. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.320 We're lucky mister Lucas considers us important enough to come 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:08.000 down here. 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.640 And meet with us. Oh please, of scoff all you want. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.240 But Roy Lucas was the first person to write about 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.240 the grounds for a constitutional challenge to abortion laws. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.560 Everyone in the movement has read him. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:20.720 Lynda was so impressed when I told her mister Lucas 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.320 was coming down. She'd be here if she could get 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:22.920 away from work. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.640 Oh there he is now, he's so handsome. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.920 Ladies. Hello, we're all mister Lucas. So you're the girls 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.960 turning everything upside down? Here in Dallas. Let me get 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:34.600 a good look at you. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.520 All, mister Lucas. I'm beez Hearin. We spoke on the phone. 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.879 This is Deb, Marga Leese and of course Sarah Wedding. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:43.240 You're a little last to meet. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.160 You, missus Weddington. You are even more beautiful in person 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.560 than in your photos in the paper. Tell me, do 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.280 you ladies have any idea what a remarkable job you've done? 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:53.200 Yes, we do. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.160