
Legal fury, reproductive justice, court by court.
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Boom! Lawyered turns court fights into fast, furious legal analysis for people who want the stakes made plain. Its recent episodes move from birthright citizenship and Trump-era courts to abortion pills, trans students, Supreme Court drama, and reproductive freedom messaging.
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About Boom! Lawyered
Boom! Lawyered is a legal politics show built around the fights that decide who gets rights, protection, and public attention. Its home turf is reproductive justice law. From there, it follows the wider architecture around that fight: courts, executive power, constitutional doctrine, schools, policing, and media narratives. The show is direct. It does not treat the federal judiciary as neutral scenery or legal procedure as harmless paperwork. Recent episodes have examined birthright citizenship, mass deportation rhetoric, Trump’s effect on the federal courts, Supreme Court drama, medication abortion, abortion criminalization, parental-rights litigation, and legal attacks involving trans students. The analysis moves quickly but keeps the legal machinery visible. Terms like substantive due process, per curiam orders, court stays, judicial independence, and constitutional privacy rights are handled in the flow of conversation rather than sealed off in jargon. The mood is often exasperated. That is part of the point. Boom! Lawyered assumes law affects bodies, families, schools, citizenship, and safety, so its coverage treats legal outcomes as human consequences rather than abstract scorekeeping. Listener AMA episodes add a looser format, especially around reproductive freedom messaging and election strategy. Summer Session episodes bring guests into broader law-and-politics conversations. The related Bitch Listen material expands the same attention to power, harm, disability, disappearance, media attention, and whose stories are granted empathy. The show’s register is sharp, funny, and openly political, with clean legal explanations wrapped in impatience at institutional hypocrisy. It is best for listeners who already care about rights and courts but want help following the actual levers of power. It is also useful for anyone trying to understand how Supreme Court orders, lower-court litigation, state enforcement, and presidential actions connect. Boom! Lawyered does not pretend the law is happening somewhere else. It makes the fight feel close, specific, and ongoing.
Made for: For listeners who follow reproductive rights, court politics, and legal fights and want legal analysis that is both accessible and openly engaged. It especially suits people who prefer sharp conversation over detached institutional commentary.
What sets it apart: Boom! Lawyered pairs detailed court coverage with a voice that treats legal doctrine as lived politics. It stands out by connecting reproductive justice to federal courts, birthright citizenship, trans discrimination, abortion criminalization, and authoritarian power without losing the thread of what the law actually says.
In their own words
Every week, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy take you on a wild ride through the latest legal battles in the fight for reproductive justice. On everything from abortion rights to trans discrimination to racial justice, Boom! Lawyered will help you get smart, stay mad, have fun, and fight back.Produced by Rewire News Group.
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Boom! Lawyered turns Supreme Court thickets into the argument you wish your group chat could sustain.
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Episodes
- 1
What’s Going On In the Fight Over Abortion Pills
·35m - 2
We Did the Reading. Fascism Came Anyway.
·21m - 3
Will Donald Trump Put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court?
·38m - 4
The New Parental Rights Legal Grift
Hidden gemMirabelli v. Bonta turns parental rights into a weapon against trans kids and teachers.
·44m·2 clips - 5
The Justice Department Tries to Prosecute Black Journalists
·39m - 6
In Mercy's Shadow: The Mercy Narrative in True Crime
·47m - 7
Why Conservatives Want to Ban Trans Girls from Sports
·47m - 8
My Holidays Look a Little Different This Year (Thanks, Portia)
·34m - 9
We're In The Deconstruction Era - Re-release
·29m - 10
Texas Bounty Abortion Pill Bounty Hunter Law Goes Into Effect
·32m - 11
Judy Reyes on ICE Raids, Humanity, and the Power of Storytelling
·45m - 12
From Marriage Equality to SCOTUS Reform: Imani and Jess Answer Your Questions
·46m - 13
Fighting Back During Trump’s Most Chaotic Era
·20m - 14
A Colorado School Tests the Separation of Church and State
·29m - 15
The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men
·52m - 16
Why Planned Parenthood is getting in on the California redistricting effort
·41m - 17
Conversion Therapy Bans Head to SCOTUS
·32m - 18
The Supreme Court Gears Up for Another Unprecedented Term
·38m - 19
It’s Never Too Late To Be Gay, Featuring Franchesca Ramsey
·49m - 20
Introducing Our New Show: “B*tch, Listen!” with Imani Gandy
·2m - 21
We’re in the Deconstruction Era
·28m - 22
Why Conservatives Really Want to Defund Planned Parenthood
·25m - 23
The Unhinged Theory Behind Ending Birthright Citizenship and Creating Fetal ‘Personhood’
·30m - 24
SCOTUS Blurs the Line Between Church and State
·36m - 25
SCOTUS Season Ended. WTF Was That?
·33m - 26
Supreme Court to Trans Kids: Sorry Not Sorry, But You're SOL
·27m - 27
Unpacking SCOTUS' 'Reverse Discrimination' Decision
·20m - 28
Asked and Answered: The Sequel
·20m - 29
‘Pride Puppy’ Author Talks LGBTQ+ Book Ban and SCOTUS Case
·19m - 30
Who Is the Lady Trying to Upend Disability Law?
·30m - 31
The First Amendment Is Being Rewritten in Real Time
·28m - 32
What's Happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia Could Happen to Any of Us
·25m - 33
Boom! Buzzkilled Live from D.C.
·1h 44m - 34
Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms, Lawyers, and the Law
·32m - 35
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe on Abortion ‘After Dobbs’
·49m - 36
Republicans Walk Back Their Attacks on Disabled People… Sort Of
·24m - 37
Answering Your Burning Questions
·27m - 38
‘Wellness Farms’ Could Soon Be Coming to a Town Near You
·20m - 39
The Trump Administration Is Coming for Your Access to Contraception, Abortion, and… Dildos?
·22m - 40
The Fifth Circuit Doesn't Mind If Teens Have Guns
·23m - 41
Getting Through Trump’s First Week—Mostly
·26m - 42
Will the Supreme Court Help Ban Porn?
·23m - 43
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship?
·26m - 44
Gender-Affirming Care Gets Its Day at SCOTUS
·32m - 45
What’s Next in Skrmetti?
·26m - 46
Not This Again
·30m - 47
Andrea Grimes Is So Back
·27m - 48
Republican Attorneys General Are Wielding Junk Science to Demand Teens Stay Pregnant
·22m - 49
Meet Amy Coney Barrett's Case Against Emergency Abortion Care
·29m - 50
Project 2025 Is Worse Than You Think
·26m - 51
Mifepristone (Kind Of, Maybe) Wins at SCOTUS
·23m - 52
Goat-Herding Nuns Are Making Their Case to SCOTUS
·23m - 53
Did 'Dobbs' Break John Roberts?
·43m - 54
Putting Originalism Through the Wood Chipper With Madiba Dennie
·34m - 55
How to Have More Fun in Repro Politics With Special Guest Lizz Winstead
·28m - 56
Just Decide the EMTALA Case Already, You Cowards
·25m - 57
What Actually Happened With the Mifepristone Ruling
·14m - 58
Adoption, Abortion, and the Politics of Parenting
·52m - 59
Justice Alito's Flagrant Freaky Flag Misconduct
·23m - 60
What the Hell Is Abortion Trafficking Anyway?
·23m - 61
We Are in the Bad Place (Re-Release)
·21m - 62
Will SCOTUS Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients?
·22m - 63
Will SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon Patients Who Need Abortions?
·21m - 64
Elie Mystal on Why You Don't Need to Like SCOTUS Anymore
·46m - 65
How Some DeSantis Goons Decimated Abortion Access in the Southeast
·24m - 66
Mifepristone’s Not-So-Bad Day at the Court
·22m - 67
Two Key Issues to Watch in the High-Stakes Abortion Pill Case
·22m - 68
The Fifth Circuit Just Took Us One Step Closer to Ending Birth Control Access
·26m - 69
Valentine's Week Message From Jess and Imani
·1m - 70
Hello Mife, My Old Friend. Junk Science Is Attacking You Again.
·29m - 71
What the Hell Exactly Happened for Abortion in Pennsylvania?
·22m - 72
Why Is the Biden Administration Throwing Doctors Under the Bus?
·28m - 73
Discrimination Against Trans Kids and Their Parents Is Spreading
·28m - 74
Back in 'Lawyers for Fetuses' Territory
·34m - 75
Happy Holidays From Jess and Imani
·1m - 76
Making Sense of Texas' BS: It's Special Guest Andrea Grimes!
·40m - 77
The Major Trans Rights Case SCOTUS Could Hear Next Year
·26m - 78
Special Holiday Message From Imani and Jess!
·1m - 79
The Originalist Case for Arming Domestic Abusers
·21m - 80
This Case Could End Teens' Birth Control Access
·30m - 81
Mootness Might Save Civil Rights Testing
·31m - 82
Who Gets to Be a Person?
·22m - 83
Jess and Imani Will Return Next Week—Live!
·1m - 84
Our Big SCOTUS Preview
·50m - 85
Meet Ginni Thomas, the Tenth Justice
·32m - 86
The End of Affirmative Action
·35m - 87
Federal Judge Body Slams DeSantis' Attacks on Trans Kids
·26m - 88
Tribal Sovereignty Triumphs in Latest SCOTUS Decision
·29m - 89
Jess Valenti on the Fall of 'Roe' One Year Later: "All of This Is a Tragedy"
·27m - 90
Welcome to Sweaty SCOTUS Season
·33m - 91
The North Carolina Abortion Ban Is a Disaster
·38m - 92
The Supreme Court Is Corrupt
·37m - 93
Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz Takes You Inside the True Crime Machine
Hidden gemMankiewicz argues that the criminal justice system is “a terrible therapist,” and that “closure” is a myth.
·48m·2 clips - 94
There’s More Drama at the Supreme Court
Hidden gemTrump's tariffs were struck down 6-3, and the hosts say the real story is his public attack on the justices.
·40m·2 clips - 95
What's Up With the New Title IX Rule?
Hosts interview legal expert Chris Geidner about the Biden administration's Title IX rule changes to protect LGBTQ students.
·35m - 96
Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s How to Fix It
Hosts discuss the impact of Trump's federal judge appointments on reproductive rights and other legal issues.
·37m - 97
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship
This episode revisits a past discussion on birthright citizenship in light of renewed threats under a second Trump administration.
·26m - 98
You Asked, We Answered: AMA With Jess and Imani!
Hosts discuss listener questions about reproductive justice and Kamala Harris's approach to abortion rights in the final episode of the summer session.
·28m - 99
John Roberts Stop Complaining Challenge
Hidden gemJohn Roberts calls internet criticism a threat to judicial independence, then the hosts quote his four categories.
·28m·1 clip - 100
What’s With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills? (Re-Release)
Hidden gemAlabama’s attorney general says medication abortion could fall under the state’s chemical endangerment law.
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