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"What does the supreme court's overnight ruling mean for roe versus wade. That's the question. Abortion rights activists are tackling after the court made the decision not to block a new texas state law that bans abortions in most cases starting at six weeks of pregnancy. Here's an tally. With texas equal access fund. We have to get people out of state so we're working very closely with our partners. We've been planning with our partners. About trying to you know strengthen our pipelines to get people out taxes into neighboring states. Get the abortion care that they need. The texas law is the first of its kind to actually take effect and it's unique because it gives citizens the right to report anyone. They think is performing an illegal abortion for more on the ramifications of all of this. Let's bring in emily basil alon. She's a senior research scholar at yale law school and staff writer for the new york times magazine. Welcome back emily. Thanks for having me yes. Thank you for being here. So in a one paragraph statement supreme court stated that abortion providers who challenged the law had not made their case in the face of quote complex and novel procedural questions. Can you explain more of what that means. Yeah sure it's really important to emphasize what a break with normal legal procedure. This is in terms of what the supreme court isn't isn't doing here so the court refused to stop texas from effectively banning abortion and they did so by relying on this procedural argument without really talking about the constitutional right to abortion that row provides for. It's really is if the court has sidelined roe versus wade. And so you know what that means here is that previously estate passed restriction on abortion. The courts would decide whether that law was unconstitutional. Before the law went into effect and that before is important because it prevents a lot of disruption in the lives of people who are seeking abortions for abortion providers this time though the court is effectively leading texas pull off the slate of hand kind of legal sleight of hand where texas said. Well you can't sue. State officials the normal way of challenging the constitutionality a law before it goes into a fact and so as a result of that question about who you can sue. We're just gonna let the law take shape. We're going to effectively almost end abortion in texas and then figure out the procedural niceties later and that is very unusual behavior from the supreme court. I wanna talk more about the specifics of the court makeup. And this decision you use. This term though sidestepped roe versus wade reproductive rights groups are really afraid they've worn that roe versus wade is in danger of being completely overturned by the supreme court and this is one step in that direction. Is there anything in this decision. That indicates how the justices may rule in future cases. You know on paper. The conservative majority that issued. This decision was careful to say. We're not ruling directly on row in reality to take step like this where you're basically almost ending abortion rights in the second largest state in the country. It's really hard to imagine the justice doing that if they thought that. Rocha stand on the books because this is such an earthquake for people in texas and it really sort of. It has to be premised on the idea that the constitutional right to abortion is Is under threat. We mentioned that. This is the first law of its kind in our country to be enacted in texas others have had are tied up legal action. Does this mean we could actually see more states. Tried to push this for this kind of legislation. yes. I think we should absolutely expect that you know. Conservative states have been trying to restrict or end abortion for decades. And they've taken a lot of runs back goal with different kinds of laws. This law was kind of a sleeper. I don't think anyone or very many people expected the supreme court in this Shadow docket way meaning without full. Argument and briefing without a fully developed reason to pinon was going to use this kind of procedural sidestepping to end abortion. Now that that's exceeding in texas. I think you can expect every other state that wants to ban abortion to to do so and then you're really talking about a hugely consequential change for For americans you know. In many places in the country reproductive rights groups could still actually bring their their challenge to the texas law. Back to the high court at a later time right. Could we see this law overturned at a later date. Yes we could. I mean i think there will be more litigation over the law. This is anything but the last word exactly how that unfolds went. How long it takes is very unclear. And so that means that we're going to have an interim period in which the constitutional right to abortion is already effectively decimated in texas and could well be the same kind of situation in a bunch of other states and there are all kinds of ramifications for that for people seeking abortions for abortion providers who have businesses and organizations to run and so there's a real potential domino effect here and we just don't know what this is gonna look like. That's emily basil senior research scholar at yale law school in staff writer for the new york times magazine as always thank you. Thanks so much today. Supporters of the black lives matter movement are applauding a grand jury. In aurora colorado. Jurors indicted three. Police officers two paramedics. Yesterday among the charges are manslaughter and criminally-negligent homicide in the death of a young black man. Two years ago his name elijah maclean. It was twenty. Three ellison sherry is a justice report for colorado public radio and alison. I understand eligible claim. Two years ago was walking home from a convenience store. He was stopped by police. Who put him in a chokehold and then paramedics later injected him with the powerful sedative. So what specific wrongdoing are. They charged with well. It was at thirty five count. Indictment filed against five people so those charges are collectively among three officers and two paramedics who are on the scene and they include a charge each of manslaughter criminal criminally-negligent homicide and several assault charges. Okay and as far as the the paramedics specifically. I understand this pretty unusual for paramedics to be charged in these cases. Does this go to what they did in their central involvement in this. Yeah i mean this. Entire story is highly unusual. You know i can't recall. Paramedics being criminally charged for something they did on the job and the history of my beat And i think you know. Indictment had the paramedics stood by. Didn't do didn't look at him They didn't touch him. They talked to the officers. They didn't talk to him You know so this is this. This does stand out. The paramedics piece stood out. And i didn't have much detail before this about what happened with the paramedics. But i think you know a bigger thing that stands out as this whole thing is a byproduct of the police reform movement last summer. Elisha mclean died in august of twenty nineteen a full nine months ahead of george floyd's murder. There was a local investigation by a local. Da that exonerated the cops. The local corner dubbed mcclain's caused the death has undetermined and the case was really closed but last summer. The summer of reckoning with police violence mounted pressure on public officials including colorado's governor and he wrote an executive order giving the special prosecutorial power over this case a grand jury was convened. Now we have a much different result right and so you've been following this plot over over two years in aurora. Does this go to the of the central role public anger brought about you know right after this happened there were some protests early on. But you know as i mentioned this really gained big traction national and got national even international attention last summer his mother's go fund me. She said up for his funeral. Months and months earlier exploded people took to the streets and several state and federal investigations were launched into what happened with leisure. Mclean andy aurora. Police departments patterns and practices overall. Now i wanna ask you about ketamine this powerful sedatives. The paramedics injected into alleged mclean..
Big Al and JoJo
‘Elijah McClain should still be here today’; Aurora Fire Rescue, Aurora police respond to independent review
"Are reacting to the independent review of the death of 23 year old Elijah McLean at the hands of police in 2019. Outside. Investigators say Aurora police did not have a legal basis to stop. Alija McClain did not have the legal authority to frisk him or use a choke hold on him and that paramedics did not properly evaluate him before giving him a powerful sedative. Today. Police chief Vanessa Wilson reacted to the report. The bottom line is Elijah MacLean should still be here today, a state grand jury and the U. S. Justice Department are investigating the case as well. Laura
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Elijah McClain's parents sue Colorado police over his death
"The family of Elijah MacLean has filed a federal civil rights suit against the city of Aurora, Colorado, You'll remember he was the unarmed 23 year old who died in police custody last summer. Colorado Public Radio's Alison Sherry reports on the latest developments in the case. The incident that led to Elijah McLane's death started with a call to 901 reporting a quote, sketchy looking individual. Police stopped McLane, who is African American. As he was walking home from a convenience store. McClain's family lawyer, Mari Newman, a rural police officers stopped, Elijah grabbed him tackled him to the ground and over the course of the next 18 minutes inflicted multiple types of excessive force against him. McCain wasn't suspected of any crime. In the altercation that followed. Officers put him into karate holds and kept him pinned to the ground. Paramedics who arrived on the scene, then injected him with ketamine, a sedative. His family's lawyers allege the dose was too much for his £143 body size. He went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance, and MacLean was taken off life support several days later. Maclaine's death got renewed attention this spring in the wake of the George Floyd death in Minnesota and became a rallying cry both in Colorado and elsewhere in the country for police