the republican party s front-runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 3 that is4 the reality the republican party must now grapple with, if they were into reality. so that sre an issue. what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has precisely zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted by a case brought by a new york city prosecutor whoas does not repor to president biden. facing another ten criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases against trump was brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from nor coordinates with president f bidench so donald trump has reacted in a way he traditionally does when reality does not fit with his preferred reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases
their path forward. in the anti-abortion movement roe was not the end. it was the beginning of the end, and their goal is to eradicate abortion completely. they see this as a spearual and moral fight, and it s really even beyond abortion itself. it s in some ways rolling back the sexual revolution, remaking or averting what american families are. so when you look at their internal strategy documents what you see are efforts to challenge trans rights, to challenge gay marriage, to finally introduce more prayer in the public school in the public square. maybe that s in town meetings or in school, and that s really where they re headed, and they have lower courts in many cases and certainly a supreme court that appears to be with them or maybe likely to be with them on some of these issues. yeah, and they re trying to introduce parental rights back into the conversation, which is happening. they re talking about not affirmative action but free speech on college campuses. all these thi
central role in the trump era push to empower a conservative christian agenda. in the fall of roe, which is new book published today authors elizabeth dias and lisa lai describe this resurgence and how it led to what we re living through right now. i m going to speak the with the authors of the book coming up next. with the authors of the book coming up next
point to strike at roe and be the best shot at having that decision overturned. his policy is litigation strategy. again, they weren t gunning for it necessarily. it was the mississippi state solicitor-general i think really like we re going to go for broke on this one. our book has new interesting details like inside the room when these decisions were made in realtime, which is such a window into legal strategy that so many people don t get to see. but the right, they kind of knew the broader changes that were happening certainly with former president trump getting these justices, so the question really was which case will the supreme court take over? when will they do that? and so people will tell us the right, they never want to assume something is done until it s done. that s the game. they re cautious because the goal is so intense to win, but once the case was taken up, that s when it was like, okay, this is go time, and there is a
what s interesting, elizabeth, the way the adf as aggressive and ambitious as it was didn t think the dobbs decision was going to be the final nail in the coffin for reproductive choice. can you talk a little bit about the negotiations happening behind the scenes? sure. the right is a moment that thinks in generations, and they always had a plan for the plan for the plan, right? just to make sure that no matter what contingency happened, they were going to do whatever it took to overturn roe. and that s something that the left really missed along the way. you have this sort of deluge of laws coming through the state legislature and adf ended up happening with the dobbs case ended up being behind getting that legislation passed through their allies with conservative christian lobbyists in states like mississippi. but the trick for them really was building strategies on strategies and making sure that no opportunity could go unmissed, and that kind of big