Introduction

Judge angy brown jackson endured a gruling 18 hours of questioning from the members of the senate judiciary committee. She weathered increasingly rude treatment from several republican senators on topics that bore little relation to her qualifications and rather seemed designed to produce demagogic talking points for republican campaigns. But before judge jackson takes her place there, the court is set to announce a decision weakening or even overruling roverses wad. In ation, several state legislatures are jumping the gun to pass anti abortion measures that are irreconcilable with row, but that they hope will be upheld under a new regime. Others, meanwhile, have begun to pass voting legislation on bogus grounds of reducing election