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The Confirmation Hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

We the People

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Are We Still Hearing About Abortion Rights?

The elephant in the room in all of those earlier hearings was obviously row and abortion. But here we are now in two thousand 22 the court seems poised to dismantle row and maybe even to overturn it entirely. Abortion rites as we know it are not really on the table in the way that they were in those earlier confirmation hearings. The senators are tipping their hand about what the postrol legal landscape is going to look like. And there are actual, substantive conflicts over these unenumeratedrigh s that proceed from the right to privacy.

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