Supreme Court Leak Speculation | Alexis McGill Johnson

Slone is also here with the lottery. Michael Costa is gonna find out if people read the news. And our guest is the President's and CEO of Planned Parents, And so let's do this people, Let's jump straight into the big news of the day, all right. With the Supreme Court now seemingly on the brink of striking down Roe v. Wade, many people are horrified, not that women in half the country would lose their rights over their own body, but

rather that this information got leaked, which is weird. It's like running around the deck of the Titanic trying to find out who yelled we're sinking instead of focusing on the Iceberg. Now, Chief Justice John Roberts has announced an immediate investigation to identify the leaka the cable news doesn't have time to wait around, so everyone knows who really did it? Who did it? That's the question everyone is asking today. Who's behind the league? Was it a clerk?

Was it somebody at the copy Miss Jean? Who done it? Some left wing law clerk angry at the direction the court is going. I think this was leaked by a liberal law clerk who is trying to change the outcome of the case. A lot of people are saying, this may have leaked from Justice out of my clerk. If it was a conservative, it might be someone who wants to keep all the five judges that are on the side of Aldo's opinion in their box. There. Yes, it was a left wing a tief a law clerk trying

to sabotage the court. Or it was a right wing maga hare trying to lock the decision in place. Oh, maybe it was the butler. It's always the butler. But while everyone on regular cable channels was playing the least horny version of Knives Out, Newsmax had already cracked the case. It was the black woman. I found it suspect that the first leak coming out of the Supreme Court in history comes shortly after Judge Jackson is confirmed. She would be my first suspect when it comes to the league.

And my first spread for asshole is you is you look at you? You think to tried and true investigative technique of the black person did it? And you know, everyone has theories. Everyone has theories. For all we know, it could have been an accident, right. There are many times that I've gotten drunk and sent something that it should have stayed in drafts. But I mean, I guess that doesn't make sense for the Supreme Court because I could have gotten drunk at the Supreme Court. You know,

it's uh still light beer, my man. Look, whoever did it? Though? Whoever did it? Though I'm not surprised it happened. In fact, I can't believe that this didn't happen earlier. I mean, have you seen the security they have in the Supreme Court? It sucks. The god outside is literally wearing a blindfold. It's not gonna help anybody. And so I do get why they're trying to find the sleaka. You know, you don't want this to turn into a trend, all right.

They leak now they're gonna in the future, it's leaks all the way going forward. I mean, look look at what happened in the world of comedy. One stand up gets slapped. Now Dave Chappelle is getting tackled on stage. Ship. I had to get a pair of nunchucks just in case. Try that ship with me. That's right, Pop up, pop out now, Pop up now. I'm gonna show you, Peter what what knocked myself up before you get to me. Now.

While the Supreme Court is trying to figure out who the snitches, the rest of the country is trying to figure out what women will be allowed to do with their own bodies. And while everyone knew that women in red states were in trouble, it turns out, thanks to some lazy lawmaking, there are also two blue states where women might lose the right to choose. If the Supreme Court does strike down Roe v. Wade later the spring, all lives in Wisconsin would then turn to a one

seventy year old law that's still on the book. Wisconsin still has a band unabortion in place from eighteen forty nine. It outlaws all abortions except for cases where a mother's life is at risk. In Michigan, the law is passed in nineteen thirty one, and the band's abortion unless done to save the life of the person who is pregnant, and contains no exception for rape or incest. The band never had to be repealed because Roe had made it obsolete, but it is still state laws still in the books.

This is so ridiculous. If Roe v. Wade goes away Michigan and Wisconsin, we're going to start using laws from nineteen thirty one and eighteen forty nine. Do you understand how crazy I think about how many laws like from back then. How many laws are we using from back then? Think about the laws that we even around Half of them are about how much corn you can legally hide in your top hats. Those are the abortion laws that are about to come back into effects. Guys, Unused laws

shouldn't be a thing that come back. It should be they should have like an expiration date, or at the very least, states should smell them every now and again to make sure that they haven't gone bad. Now you might be thinking, you might be thinking, well, aunt Michigan and Wisconsin pro choice. Yeah, they are big time. More than six Wisconsin votes and at least sevent in Michigan

support legal abortion. But their state legislatures are controlled by Republicans. Yeah, so you best believe you're more likely to see Fashion Nova at the met Gala than these Republicans repeal those laws. And so once again, the job of protecting Americans false to the only people who actually care about them. Corporations. As women fight for abortion rights, Amazon says they'll help

their employees access the health care they want. The company announced on Monday that it will pay for abortions for employees who need them. They'll give up to four thousand dollars a year two workers who need to travel to other states to seek medical care. Other companies like Apple, City Group, Levis, and Yelp have made similar promises to employees. Wow, that's a big deal. Yeah, companies like Apple, Citsey Group, and even Amazon are promising to help their employees travel

to other states if they need to get abortions. Which is amazing. That's really amazing. Usually you only see that kind of offer when a member of Congress gets his mistress pregnant. Really powerful and considering the political climate right now, any company waiting into controversial culture war issues like they

could face serious backlash. I mean, pro lifers could start a boycott against Amazon that could last minutes before they get tempted by a deal on a knockoff room BA. And you know, to be honest, I'm actually surprised that Amazon is doing this. Yeah, because it's wild. They'll let employees go to a blue state before they'll let them use the bathroom. I mean, that's pretty wild. But but they deserve the praise. In fact, I propose a toast.

Let's all raise a Gatorade bottle of p in Amazon's honor. Heah, yeah, m ah, I thought it was pissed at Gatorade that mix it the wrong way. So those are the latest updates on the fallout of the rov Wade leak from the Supreme Court. And while we don't know where this will end, we do know it's definitely reignited a conversation

about how society treats women's reproductive rights. Because you know what I find interesting is if you go online or if you watch conservatives conservative news right, you buy your bound to find like tons of people saying that the reason they're against abortion. The reason is because they don't want to interfere with what God has decided. If you got pregnant, it's because God wanted you to be pregnant, and if you can't have kids, that's God's plan, to

which I understand as an argument, I really do. However, I find it interesting that these same people never use that argument when it comes to men. Yeah, because if you watch if you watch Fox News or any of these channels, they've got ads for erectile dysfunction pills. All right, yeah, how come they never say, oh, you get it up, Well, that's God's will. I'm sorry your penis doesn't work anymore,

That's what the Lord wanted. They never say that. They never said medicine is always encouraged to do whatever it can to augment men's sexual health. However it can and if you will. If you want to see, if you want to see just how far medicine is willing to go four men, look no further than the story from the UK where doctors helped a man grow a penis

on his arm. A British man who lost his penis to an infection has finally had a new one surgically attached after six years of growing it on his arm. Doctors even designed a hand pump that can inflate the penis and produce an erection. Forty seven year old Malcolm McDonald is the subject of a new documentary called The

Man with a Penis on his Arm. According to The Daily Mail, viewers were stunned watching the program last night, in which malc described the penis falling out of his sleeve or shopping, and even hitting his loved ones in the face when he helped them. Yeah, this man lost his penis and instead of accepting it, doctors figured out a way to grow him a new one on his arm. And as hard as it was for him to live like this, I'm glad that medicine has come so far

that we're basically doing something that's from the future. Meanwhile, we want women to live back in And by the way, can I also just say how much I appreciate the title of that documentary, The Man with the Penis on his Arm. No, it's simple, it's clear, it's direct. Yeah, if I see that scrolling on Netflix, I know exactly what I'm getting and exactly what it is. Unlike Tiger Kings, I thought it was the sequel to Lion Kings starting Tigers.

It turns out the real Star Wars mess. But you see, there's a reason, and I'm bringing up the story today, right, And it's not just for the incredible dick jokes I could make. No like, obviously, getting an abortion and getting an ompenis on the same thing. But I do find it emblematic of how differently men and women's reproductive health is treated. Women across America will soon lose autonomy over their own bodies, and many people are fine with it.

You even see people on TV downplaying the situation. So you'll have to carry a baby for nine months against your will and then let it destroy your body, and maybe you're not ready for this in life, and maybe you can't afford It's fine, you can just give it up for adoption after It's fine. Meanwhile, a guy loses his dick, and it's like Liam Neeson is on the case. I don't care how long it takes, I don't care what medical innovations we have to come up with. Where

will get your penis back? Just think about that. All right, that's it for the headlines. Let's move on to something that everyone loves. It's time to check in on today's lottery numbers. But everybody time, I'm excited so bad. What's happening? Jolts there? What's going m How are you doing today? How you're doing? Listen? I am doing absolutely great, you know, blessed and Holly favorite. Um. But before we get to the lottery, can we talk about Katangi Brown Jackson? Please?

Oh you mean the Newsmax story where they said they suspect her. Well, absolutely, because it's like everybody knows, you don't do dirt when you first start a job, like when you first start working once somewhere, that's not when you steal. Otherwise I would have walked out of here with seven desktop computers. No, you start stealing when you're bout to quit, like that Stephen Breyer, do you know the other white other white, the white man, uh of a hundred of him. He's on his way out. Hate

the one that leaked. Did When you quit, that's when you start staying. Everybody knows that. To confus Listen, I give you a prime example. Okay. I used to work for a power company who cannot be named, And when I was getting ready to quit, everybody who called me whose life wasn't on. I just turned their life on. That's that's who's now Listen. Is it a felony maybe? But am I a good person? Absolutely? I'm glad you can name him. I'm glad you name all right, Well,

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Did you put in this up jact line? Can't put it all on the subject line? Then you didn't want me to know the information. So if you don't read the emails, what do you read? Listen? If it's not on Instagram, I don't know what's happening. But if I told you the Latcher that I even told you about the news, I put the news in the email. Listen, I get on my news from this show, So I don't know what you're talking about. Oh boy, all right, Um, okay, let's let's let's see what the next one is. Then

let yeah, I is that a line twenty one? This doesn't this doesn't help us, Okay, let me. I'm I'm sorry. Um. Did you say a man had a penis on your arm? Yeah, they grew a penis for him in his arm. Okay, well, but that's the penis he chose. Like if they give you, it's like if they've gonna grow you a new one on your forearm, shouldn't it be like down his fingertips. I think it's weird to be worried about the side.

Like I think if you don't have a penis and then someone offers you a penis, I think you just take what you can get. Listen, there are many times in my life when I haven't had a penis, And I promise you I didn't settle for anyone that just came along. You understand, you got to have standards, Trevor. Okay, you got to love your steps. Thank You's not much that listen, that's all for me, You got what do you mean? It's all for you didn't. You didn't give

us the numbers. I'm so sorry. I got distracted about the pee and stuff I got about the balls. Don't say slow, everybody. I don't go away because we're still going to be joined by the presidents of Planned Parenthood. You don't want to miss it, so I don't hear any of the numbers. And here we can see the Chappell prowling the Hollywood stage, unaware of a predator in the audience, waiting to pounce, waiting for his moment. It

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going with Gilbert. The audience member has round and he has also found out this is the circle of life. Welcome back to the day show. Here at the show We pay a lot of attention to what's going on in the news, but how much other people outside our studio following along? Well, we sent Michael Costs to find out for another edition of Fill Me In. Welcome to fill me In, the game where we put their words into your mouth. Oh that sounded kind of gross, Okay, Welcome to fill me in. This is a game where

you fill in the gaps. Gaps, give me another answer. A game where you fill in the answers another answer. A game where you fill in the missing links blanks. You fill in the blanks. Do we know who this is? All right? Republican? Duh? Who looks at this and says Democrat? Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorne, You probabs. You probably read his stuff on the blogs you read m Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorne recently said, quote, the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt

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I'm not sleeping, I'm woken. Woke ideology. How do you know that? Do you believe that Ukraine is pushing this woke ideology? Not so much. They're pretty busy with the bull perfect, you know, woke ideology, like what the those leftists believe that Russia shouldn't be invading a sovereign country. So politically correct politicians for this next round, let's hear it from the real heroes. Movie stars. Reason Wetherspoon recently tweeted,

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he should do about North Korea? Who said that, Mike Penn, Mike Pence, you are giving Donald Trump way too much respect to think that he would ask an actual politician a policy question. I think much less qualified can happen. He introduces himself like this, my name is blank blank RuPaul. RuPaul actually is qualified to hit on North Korea. If you've seen drag rays, breaking up arguments, dealing with egos, disappointment success, think of the least qualified person that could

answer a question about North Korea. A person who said to Trump, I'm not qualified to answer that. Kid Rock. Well, guess what it's kid Rock. My name is Kidball, chick ow maw, balls in your mouth, balls in your mouth, balls in your mouth. That's what I'm a song. I don't just scream that. When we come back. Alexius mcgilla Johnson, the presidents of Plant Parents wore just joining me on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to The

Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president and CEO of Planned Parents, Were He's here to talk about the fights for Rovie Wade and protecting women's rights to choose. Please welcome Alexis McGill Johnsonome, welcome, Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you so much for having me, What a time to have you on. Um. Everybody in the country has been shell shocked by what is not an official decision but unfortunately looks like a looming one. Nonetheless, as the

president of planned parenthood. I know many people are turning to you to say, what does this mean? What does it actually mean on the ground. So right now it is still a draft opinion. On the ground, abortion is still legal, and I think that's really important because there are people waking up every day who are going to health centers to get access to care, and there are already enough restrictions out there. So we have to remember that this is a moment where the final decision isn't in.

What we saw on the ground as well, yesterday was an intense set of demonstrations of the rage that people have been experiencing over and over again and the frustration

with seeing their rights being chipped away. When you when you look at that and you look at that fight, do you do you ever think that we could do a better job of maintaining a consistency in these fights for people's liberties as opposed to having it be an on off switch, Because you know, I know people have made record donations and all the people are protesting, etcetera. But if you look at conservatives on their side, it

seems like they've been slowly chipping away. They slowly chip away, They plan weigh in advance, they think of which judges to get into which positions, and now it looks like they're going to reap the fruits of their you know, you know, of their labor. I'd love to know what you think, like people who believe that women should have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies,

what they should be doing constantly as opposed to intermittently. Well, I think you're absolutely right to locate it, like in in what the lawn game is right that the opposition has spent um fifty years fighting this, but the last twelve years in particular weaponizing jerrymandering UM in states, focusing on justices all the way up to the Supreme Court, and at every turn they have tried to essentially take more power in order to take more rights away. And

it is not just access to abortion that they're coming for. Right, We've heard them openly talk about access to contraception, marriage, equality, interracial marriage, all the things of how we identify ourselves and our body is um is exactly what the long game and the strategy is. So our long game has to be just as relentless right, it has to be just as strategic. It is not just about being in the streets. It is about capturing that rage and turning

it into uh, into the mid terms twenty two. We've got to make sure that we're turning people out. And we also have to think about, you know, the fact that they've kicked us out of the constitution. Right if if row we Wade is overturned, they're essentially saying you are not equal, you cannot control your body. And so if anybody kicks you out of the Constitution, you've got

to think about how you're gonna get yourself back in there. Yeah. Um, And when you think about this fight, I think a lot of the time people think about what they can do to stop the other side of what they can do to fight back at what's happening. I think there's one thing that I've found really interesting in particular between how many conservatives or Republicans think and then how many Democrats or liberals think, and that is Republicans hold their

own accountable and an interesting way. You know, so they go, either you're doing this or you out of the party. And we've seen Trump do that, you know, without fail. Is this something that people could be doing to put pressure on the Democrats to say Hey, when we have voted you in, we need you to solidify what we voted you into. Do yes, absolutely, Look, there is a bill right now called the Women's Health Protection Act. UH Leader Schumer has will take it up next week again

with the Senate to vote on. And what the Women's Health Protection Act does is it codifies ROW. It's the federal legislation that protects this right UH in into law. And you know, getting people on record, right, we don't have. Unfortunately, we need to perform the filibuster in order to get it past. But at the same time, we are going to be able to get people on record, hold them to account to your point, and that's our message. Right.

The reason you can't have what you want, even though we have of people believe that ROSE should be the law of the land, the reason you can't have the things that you want is because you know, essentially these states have UM. You know, you have got a vocal minority of people who control the levers of power. And the only way to change that is through direct democracy. So we've got to fight to get ourselves back into democracy. We also have to fight to get ourselves back in

the constitution, and this legislation can help us. Let's talk about this legislation for a moment. You know, I always get frustrated and confused by why legislation in America has so many things added in. It's like a bundle, you know, because even this Women's Health Protection Act, you know, I love the idea of codifying Roe v. Wade to go like, let's get women their rights, but then it adds in a few other things that people can use as an excuse to fights against, you know, like it affects like

waiting rooms and correct me anywhere I'm wrong. It's like it affects doctors in this way, and affects a little thing on this side and little thing on that side.

Do you sometimes not worry that when you create, you know, a law, when you when you help lawmakers to try and think of these things, it gives people an out where they can say, oh, I didn't vote for that because of this, not because I want women to have a choice, but I didn't like what it did to doctors or their waiting rooms or all these other ancillary issues that are going to affect people. So here here's the data play right now, right we have row is

the law of the land. Technically until the full decision comes down. And even with ROW being the law, land, even with it being enshrined in the constitution, states have put restrictions in over and over again. Right, We've got a six week ban in Texas that comes to the bounty hunter provision. We've got a fifteen week ban in Florida and Arizona. We've had laws about you know, whether or not someone will need to see the same doctor within a seventy two hour period. The laws are all

about shaming people. They're about shaming providers, are about shaming the patients about the decisions that they want to make about their own bodies. What the Women's Health Protection Act does is actually says all of these laws that are getting in the way of people being able to access the right, their federal right is um. Those are laws that are that would be banned. And that's what's important, right, the fact that that even though we have the right

right now, access itself is so limited. Um. And so that's why we're seeing the outrage right now because it has been not only this chipping away of rights, but also chipping away of access. Rome was just you know, the floor right is my reproductive justice colleagues would say, you know, when when you look at branding, you know, there's no denying that any political messaging, any any messaging that's trying to mobilize society has to think about how

it's branded. When you look at how people approve of or what you know the polling suggests about people's support

of abortion throughout the United States. I have noticed an interesting trend, and that is it dramatically changes depending on how the question is asked, and it changes depending on where you say the abortion happens or how so I think, you know, the overwhelming majority of people will say they are pro a woman having the right to choose, but in the first trimester, and then second trimester almost becomes even maybe flips the other way, and then you know,

third trimesterate completely flips. Do you do you ever worry that maybe Planned Parenthood and and organizations like yours that are fighting for women's rights to choose. Do you do you ever worry that you may be losing the entire war because you're not willing to concede on some of the battles or do you feel like you have to go for all of them at once, even if you risk losing everything. You know, Look, Trevor, no pregnancy, no too.

Pregnancies end in the same way, right. I mean, it is the reality that people will make decisions about their their pregnancies, whether or not to continue them or determinate them, based on the circumstances in their own lives. And that is the thing that that we really need to understand here, you know, getting parsing out weeks in gestation. That is

what the opposition has done. They try to to create these wedges around understanding what most people want is to not have a politician in their in their decision right as a you know, right, you don't want them. You don't want them in your exam room, you don't want them in the conversation with you and your doctor, you don't want them the conversation with you and your partner, with your pastor. And at the end of the day, like that to me is the most important, you know,

message that we need to be sending to people. The reason why it also needs to be a private decision is because it's only your business and so right, which who from here? So again, we are will be standing with the Senate next week when they take up this vote to support all of those folks who who support

access to abortion. Codifying ROW, we will be channeling all of the rage through two and then, like I said, you know, we have a long game that we need to play around what it really means to UH to have you know, this federal protection um enshrined in the Constitution. And I think that's really important because I think a lot about the fact that you know what it means to be a leader at the time, you know, at the end of ROW, as a leader of a reproductive

rights organization. And I think the question we have to ask ourselves now is who are we going to be

when we are no longer defending ROW. How are we going to reimagine and create an affirmative vision right without stigma, the kind of provision that everyone should be able to have the kind of health care they need to have in their own state, not getting in a car driving a thousand miles, putting your kids in the car and just to get you know, access to basic healthcare you deserve it in the state that you live, regardless of your race, class, your ability to pay. All of those

things are really important. And that's what Plant parents had stands for. That's what all the leaders in the movement stand for and we'll be offering that a firm mintivision as well. Thank you so much for joining us from the SAD who share your time. To find out bands Off our Body's rally near you on May fourteen, Toto bands Off dot Org. All right, we're gonna take a quick break, will be right back after this. Well that's also to provide, but before we go, please consider supporting

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