What Is the Shadow Docket and Why Should You Care?
In this Office Hours episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy answers a listener's question about the shadow docket, the emergency track...
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Trump Is Making It Easier to Discriminate Against Black Workers (Imani Explains it All)
Imani Gandy breaks down how a law written to stop discrimination got rewired to shield it, in this Imani Explains It All episode of Baby Boo...
FDA Wouldn’t Defend Its Own Mifepristone Rule in Court
Imani Gandy breaks down what actually happened at this week's oral argument in Louisiana v. FDA, why one judge called Louisiana's own strate...
Louisiana Says It's ‘Blanketed’ in Contraband Mifepristone
Louisiana banned abortion and criminalized mifepristone. Now it's asking the Fifth Circuit to make sure nobody in Louisiana can get the abor...
If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything? (And a Word to My Boom! Lawyered Fam)
The public health data was there. The reproductive justice framework was there. So why did Roe v. Wade become the center of gravity of the a...
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship
The conservative legal movement is on a mission to upend the 14th Amendment.
The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives
Conservatives have launched a campaign to redefine motherhood in culture and the law.
Louisiana is Ground Zero for Voting Rights, Abortion Pill Access
Louisiana shows how the fight to erase Black political power is wrapped up in the fight to upend abortion access.
The Supreme Court Gears Up For Another Unprecedented Term (Rerun)
The Supreme Court closed out arguments for the term this week. Jess and Imani are out, but this episode showcases all the biggest cases of t...
A Colorado School Tests the Separation of Church and State
Imani and Jess are off this week, but in this episode republished from 2025, Imani and Jess discuss a new school launched in Colorado that’s...
The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pills
In this episode, Imani and Jess unpack the conservative legal movement’s latest attacks on medication abortion, from courthouses to state le...
Will Donald Trump Put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court?
In this episode, Imani and Jess dive into the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy decision, birthright citizenship oral arguments, and rumour...
We Did the Reading. Fascism Came Anyway.
The most informed progressive public in American history is watching a fascist takeover in real time. In her first solo episode, Imani Gandy...
The New Parental Rights Legal Grift
In this episode, Imani and Jess break down the latest anti-trans decision from the Supreme Court, Mirabelli v. Bonta and explain how the con...
There’s More Drama at the Supreme Court
In this episode! Imani and Jess spill the tea on the recent Supreme Court drama, from infighting among the justices in the Trump tariff deci...
Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz Takes You Inside the True Crime Machine
In part two of her series on true crime and disability, Imani Gandy interviews Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz about true crime as a...
What’s Going On In the Fight Over Abortion Pills
In this episode, Imani and Jess walk through the current legal threats to medication abortion access and explain how the national abortion l...
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship
Imani and Jess are off this week, but in this episode republished from 2024 they explain the spurious new legal arguments underpinning the c...
The Justice Department Tries to Prosecute Black Journalists
In this episode, Imani Gandy and Jess Pieklo unpack the federal charges brought against Black journalists and advocates in connection to an...
In Mercy's Shadow: The Mercy Narrative in True Crime
True crime is everywhere—but crimes against disabled people are rarely treated as “true crime” at all. Imani Gandy talks with disability jus...