In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito explained that in overruling Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court was returning "the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives. This talk asks how to understand the rhetoric of democracy deployed in Dobbs in the context of the rest of the opinion, as well as in the Roberts Court's cases involving the law of democracy. Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo School of Law. She has worked in the White House Counsel's Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President (2009-11), and she clerked for lustice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court (2007-08) and Judge Richard A. Poser of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2006-07). Send a reflection before midnight to the group chat that will be made. What did you learn? What can you apply to your life?