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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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During the 1999-2000 term, the court was (much as it is now) mired in the culture wars, but often with different results. Carhart , for example, the court – in an opinion by Breyer – struck down a Nebraska law that banned so-called “partial birth” abortions, while in Santa Fe Independent School District v. In Stenberg v.

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