Melissa Murray
Law professor, co-host of Strict Scrutiny, and author
Melissa Murray (Law professor, co-host of Strict Scrutiny, and author) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Mifepristone, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader, Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Mifepristone
Murray says the case raises major questions for blue-state prescribers and untested post-Dobbs shield laws.
“likely to implicate the spate of shield laws that have been enacted in the wake of Dobbs that haven't really been tested at the Supreme Court yet”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:21:38
Murray suggests the Supreme Court may be less skeptical of anti-mifepristone claims now that public attention to abortion has waned.
“This might actually be a moment where the court is like, you know, nothing to see here”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:53
Murray argues the Trump FDA's statements questioning mifepristone's approval enabled the Fifth Circuit's nationwide ruling.
“they certainly gave the Fifth Circuit a glide path for doing so”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:37
The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader
Murray says she insisted the book be forthright about how slavery shaped the original Constitution despite the word never appearing.
“being absolutely forthright about all of the ways in which slavery is literally organized. all over the original Constitution, even though the document never says the word”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:34:10
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Murray argues preserving Section 2 in form lets non-African American litigants challenge remedial or blue-state opportunity districts.
“now non-African American litigants can come in and say, that violates my rights”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:29:43
Louisiana v. Callais
Murray warns that requiring proof of intentional discrimination will let states dilute minority votes while disguising it as partisanship.
“Most state officials aren't dumb. They're going to figure out how to do this without making it look intentional, and they're going to keep doing it”
Pod Save America: Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:25:39
Appearances
Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising?Pod Save America · May 5, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor discuss the Iran war, Spirit Airlines, redistricting, Fetterman and the DNC, then Favreau interviews Melissa Murray on mifepristone, Callais and her Constitution book.
Often appears with
- Jon Favreau · 1 shared episode
- Jon Lovett · 1 shared episode
- Tommy Vietor · 1 shared episode