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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Forty-nine years before the leaked opinion in Dobbs v.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new memoir, a snapshot of relentless optimism and grit

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Jackson’s grandparents on both sides only attended elementary school, and her own parents attended segregated schools. Starting out, Jackson’s maternal grandfather was a chauffeur, but he tired of working for wealthy white families in Jim Crow Georgia. He left and started his own landscaping business.