Legal AF by MeidasTouch - GA Supreme Court drops SHOCK RULING before Election….

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

The Georgia Supreme Court has just forced women in Georgia to carry unwanted pregnancies to term—again. Michael Popok reports on a callous 1/2 page decision overturning last week’s lower court order allowing women to choose through 22 weeks under the state’s constitution right to privacy until MAGA —following the lead of SCOTUS— slammed the door on a woman having bodily autonomy again. Head to https://zbiotics.com/LegalAF to get 15% off your first order when you use LEGALAF at checkout. Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/LegalAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Michael Popock reporting on some breaking and bad news coming out of Georgia. The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a decision, at least for now, of a lower court judge McBurney in which he had found that there was a right for a woman to choose, a right to have reproductive autonomy and to have up to 22 weeks to make that decision under Georgia law and Georgia's Constitution, not according to the Supreme Court. They had originally sent it to McBurney. They told McBurney, go look in the Georgia constitution and tell us whether you think there is a right to privacy and liberty that endures to a benefit of a woman in Georgia,

allowing her to exercise that autonomy, to get an abortion and not carry the term, something that she does not want to, at least up to 22 weeks. And the judge said yes. He used language that I talked about last week about we don't live in a handmaid's tale society where commanders can force a woman to carry another being to term. But the Georgia Supreme Court disagrees. And now we've got, there are nine total votes on the Georgia Supreme Court, two disqualified themselves or didn't vote, of the seven, six, or at least six and a half, decided against Judge McBurney and blocked his decision, cutting off access once again to abortion services in Georgia. In the four days between his last decision and five o'clock on

on Monday when the new blocking order goes into effect by Georgia, Georgia abortion clinics and reproductive rights clinics opened for business again, at least offering abortion services to women up to you know anywhere between 12 and 22 weeks. But now the the gate is coming down again on women in Georgia. And it's because of the Georgia Supreme Court. No, it's because of Donald Trump, because Donald Trump conspired with the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo and Supreme Court justices that denied that they were going to do exactly this, rip away a woman's right to choose during their confirmation hearings, including Brett Kavanaugh,

including Amy Coney Barrett, including Gorsuch. They all genuflected and said, it is supreme, super precedent, Roe vs. Wade. We would never disturb it. We have to respect it. The first thing they did when they had the numbers is they took it away and ripped away a woman's right to choose. And then they said, we're going to leave it to the states. That's what Donald Trump, the platform he's running on. leave it to the states. That's what everybody, nobody wanted. He says, everybody wanted it. Nobody wanted to have removed from them a constitutional protection over their bodily autonomy

so that we would leave it to a popular vote, state by state, reducing women to second class citizens without equal protection in this country. Nobody, who would give up a constitutional right? What moron besides Donald Trump would argue that a group of people granted a constitutional right under the US Constitution, the most sacred thing you could be given,

what should be immune from attack, would want it ripped away and put it up to a popular vote of MAGA in states that they control. Who signs up for that? Nobody. And now we're seeing the result. Georgia joins 21 other red states that have reduced their women voters and women to second class citizens. There's no other way to put it. And now abortion is once again, but more importantly than the word abortion, which has its own sort of baggage, is a woman's right to choose her own reproductive health and family planning choices with either herself or in conjunction with her family or whatever it is.

That's now removed. And it's on the ballot. Ten states in the United States along with Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump, down-ballot has a referendum to declare once and for all in that state, in those ten states, that there is a constitutional, state constitutional right for a woman to choose. That's ten states. So abortion is on the ballot. A woman's right to choose is on the ballot, at least in 10 states, but I would argue it's on the ballot in all 50 states. Because the only way you can send the message that you will not allow the government to take away your bodily autonomy

and reduce you to second class citizen and those who support women is to vote the bastards out. And don't vote Donald Trump in. And make sure that both sides of the house are blue and that the Supreme Court is reshaped with the addition of one or two additional members with the inevitable vacancies that happen over the course of an administration. That is the only way. People ask me, Polpok, what is the way? This is the way.

I'm not the Mandalorian, but this is the way. It's the only way. Take this information, bake it into your consciousness, the fiber of your being, get angry, and then vote. To paraphrase the great philosopher Barack Obama, don't boo, vote. Don't get angry, vote. And take other people with you when you do it. Otherwise, you're going to have this Georgia decision. Now on its face, it looked like a procedural order, but when you look deeply inside of it, it was a complete rejection of the 30 pages that Judge McBurney just issued in Georgia,

analyzing why a woman has a fundamental right that's greater than the state's interest in whatever's going on inside the woman, with reference in evoking the Handmaid's Tale, which is becoming less like science fiction and more like a documentary in 22 states. In a half a paragraph, no, three lines, the Georgia Supreme Court just said that women don't matter in Georgia, a battleground state by the way, and have shut the gate again to proper reproductive health. This on the cusp of there's been at least two examples of people, women in Georgia, dying because of their policies.

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And all the women in the last year, last year and a half, while the Georgia Supreme Court has dithered, these old white guys have dithered and rung their hands trying to find a way to bend over backwards to support MAGA's new policy. How many women have had to carry a baby to term that they're not physically, emotionally, or financially able, nor want to carry? How many births are there because of the delay in this law? And now,

and now that's going to continue that suffering. MAGA always has an explanation. We're for the life of the child as well as the mother. In states where they don't put any money behind adoption, adoption rates aren't higher in red states. Adoption rates aren't higher in red states. Adoption rates are not higher in red states. I'll tell you what is higher, infant mortality, childhood poverty, okay? So impoverished children and single mothers without support from social services

are very prevalent in red states. What isn't prevalent is the charity that they always talk about, that they're going to provide. They're going to put their arm, like Amy Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court. She adopted like seven children. Good for her. She thinks she's a role model? Go look up the numbers of adoptions and more importantly, overflowing orphanages run by the state in these states. Restore women to first-class citizenship. That's what Judge McBurney wanted to do, but the Supreme Court has taken it away again. Now we're at one of the most draconian, Texas-style abortion bans back on the books, six weeks, and they say how cowcowlessly and cavalierly for these guys to say it on the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Well, we'll look at all these issues. We still have time. We should let McBurney do some more analysis and more briefing and more women dying, more unwanted babies being born. Is that what we want for another six months or a year? Effectively, they've just changed for the worse the life trajectory of thousands of women in Georgia. And the women of Georgia and the people who support the women of Georgia should make them pay at the ballot box on November the 5th. I used to say, vote the bastards out,

make sure the bastard doesn't get in and that the House and the Senate go blue. Don't worry if everyone's like, well, maybe I'll split the ballot, I'll split the ticket. I want to make sure Kamala Harris doesn't run roughshod. Give her the House, give her the Senate. Let's see what happens. Let her reshape the federal judiciary, reshape the United States Supreme Court

to counterbalance what happened under the Trump era that's still going on today. Give her the House, give her the Senate. Restore your own rights in this country. I know I'm not talking to the Midas, Midas, and the legal aphorists, but to the extent that I'm not screaming into the void or the transom, which I don't think I am.

If you don't like what just happened in Georgia with the Supreme Court, if you don't like what happened at the United States Supreme Court level today, the United States Supreme Court, talk about tone at the top, the United States Supreme Court today, on the first day of its term, the first order of business was to allow women to die in Texas, right? They just ruled that Texas is, cannot be required by the Biden administration to follow the emergency medical procedure law, MTALA,

to give a woman in an emergency room an abortion if it's gonna save her life. That's how draconian, that's how dystopian it is in Texas. One of our sister states apparently, although they've been dying to secede, no pun intended, for a long time. Sorry for the women in Texas of every political stripe and no political stripe. But when the Supreme Court is saying, we're going to block the Biden administration's efforts to apply a federal law to give women protection and make sure that in medical emergencies in the emergency room, they get all care that they need, including an abortion. No, not in Texas, because Texas doesn't allow abortions. So take

that medical procedure off the table even if it saved the life of a woman. That's the tone from the top from MAGA. And so of course the other states and their Supreme Courts are following it. And I'm following it too. Right here on Legal AF, new channel for you to get turned on by and for you to subscribe to in conjunction and collaboration with the Midas Touch Network legal AFMTN we need it more than any other time I can think of So much overflowing information at the intersection of law and politics. We bring it to you with the law Politics commentary and analysis you've come to expect and love and trust over here in the Midas Touch Network now in collaboration with them legal

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