This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz are live in Washington, D.C. to discuss the Supreme Court (again) and abortion (again); Donald Trump’s ups and downs in New York courtrooms and Ronna McDaniel’s rise and fall on NBC; and Gallup’s <a href="https://www.gallup.com/analytics/349487/world-happiness-report.aspx#ite-611948">World Happiness Report 2024</a>. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Ann E. Marimow and Caroline Kitchener for The Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/26/supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone/">Supreme Court skeptical of efforts to restrict access to abortion pill</a><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/727/">Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727 (1972)</a><a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-476">303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, et al., 600 US _ (2023)</a>Juhi Doshi for ABC News: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/what-is-comstock-act-supreme-court-abortion-pill-case/story?id=108395444">What is the Comstock Act? The 151-year-old law mentioned in SCOTUS abortion pill case</a>SCOTUSblog: <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/idaho-v-united-states-2/">Idaho v. United States</a>Pam Belluck for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/health/emtala-abortion-supreme-court.html">What to Know About the Federal Law at the Heart of the Latest Supreme Court Abortion Case</a>Geoff Mulvihill and Kimberlee Kruesi for AP: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-ballot-amendment-ban-protection-states-2024-052ff9846f8416efb725240af22b92ec">Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?</a>The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html">Keeping Track of the Trump Criminal Cases</a> and Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/business/media/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-msnbc.html">NBC News Cuts Ties With Ronna McDaniel After Network Firestorm</a>Brian Beutler for Off Message: <a href="https://www.offmessage.net/p/the-political-economy-of-normalization">The Political Economy Of Normalization</a>Gallup: <a href="https://www.gallup.com/analytics/349487/world-happiness-report.aspx#ite-611948">World Happiness Report 2024</a>Clare Ansberry for The Wall Street Journal: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/world-happiness-report-americans-top-20-0f59cf98">U.S. No Longer Ranks Among World’s 20 Happiest Countries</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Generation-Rewiring-Childhood-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B0C9F37G28/tag=slatmaga-20">The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness</a> by <a href="https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_denver&stream=top">Jonathan Haidt</a>Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: The Wall Street Journal: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/evan-gershkovich">Evan Gershkovich: Updates on the WSJ Reporter Detained in Russia</a>David: Tim Newcomb for Popular Mechanics: <a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60255850/pyramid-is-not-actually-27000-years-old/">A Controversial Pyramid Isn’t Actually 27,000 Years Old—and Now, the Mystery Deepens</a> and Paul M.M. Cooper for Fall of Civilizations Podcast: <a href="https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2024/02/01/%f0%93%85%93-episode-18-is-out-now-%f0%93%85%93/">Episode 18 Is Out Now!</a>John: National Archives: <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0121">From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [20 August 1787]</a>; John Dickerson for Slate’s Navel Gazing podcast (coming soon); John Dickerson on Court TV (not available); <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6NgJwCKSZE&t=19s">Emily Bazelon on C-SPAN</a>; and David Plotz on C-SPAN: <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?96095-1/newspaper-roundtable">Washington Journal Newspaper Roundtable</a>. Listener chatter from Phil Goldstein in Washington, D.C.: The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1876/03/10/archives/flesh-descending-in-a-shower-an-astounding-phenomenon-in.html">Flesh Descending In A Shower.; An Astounding Phenomenon In Kentucky--Fresh Meat Like Mutton Or Venison Falling From A Clear Sky.</a>For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily answer audience questions. See <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/gina-m-raimondo">Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce</a>.In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest/2024/03/books-tana-french-author-interview-genre-crime-thriller-the-hunter-western-ireland">Gabfest Reads</a>, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Novel-Tana-French-ebook/dp/B0C7729CF8/tag=slatmaga-20">The Hunter: A Novel</a>. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to <a href="mailto:gabfest@slate.com">gabfest@slate.com</a>. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with special thanks to Patrick Fort for on-site production and Katie Rayford for logistics support Research by Julie Huygen HostsEmily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David PlotzFollowSlate Political Gabfest on Facebook / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/">https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/</a>@SlateGabfest on X / <a href="https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest">https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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