This four-day workweek was chock-full of last-minute filings and cases that seemed to come from the Groundhog Day dimension. The GOP continues to use the courts to make everything harder: voting, abortion, and even the concept of time. Madiba K. Dennie joins Dahlia this week to break down what happened in Missouri, to explain how SCOTUS was involved—and to crush Dahlia’s stubborn, residual optimism. They also talk about the latest attempt to ban abortion nationwide in the Louisiana v. FDA case that was argued this week.
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