Mon Feb 28, 2022 – 2:20 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life and pro-choice groups both agree that D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday would bolster the pro-abortion side.
Pro-life and pro-abortion groups mentioned the pending Dobbs v. Jackson case concerning Mississippi’s prohibition of abortions after 15 weeks. The Supreme Court has already heard the case, and even if Jackson could vote with the other justices, she would presumably vote the same way Breyer is expected to — in support of striking down the law.
Judge Jackson is a “politician in robes,” according to Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network. She said President Joe Biden’s announcement on Friday glossed over Jackson’s past work in support of abortion and other liberal causes.
“Missing are details like her work drafting an amicus brief on behalf of pro-abortion organizations in a buffer zone case [McGuire v. Reilly] in which she repeatedly disparaged the peaceful and often prayerful clinic protesters as engaging in ‘in-your-face’ and ‘chaotic’ activity that somehow fell short of ‘pure speech,’” Severino wrote on February 26 for Fox News.
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