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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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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 October 2018, Jackson issued an important ruling in favor of the U.S. territory of Guam in a dispute with the U.S. On appeal, the D.C.

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