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Author: Laphonza Butler

Laphonza Butler is the president of EMILY’s List. The mission of EMILY’s List is to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot across the country.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Balancing the Scales of Justice

Laphonza Butler

Accomplished candidates like Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson face undue double standards because the system was created for white men by white men. Jackson would make history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court—not because others like her were never qualified before, but because the system was not built for us.

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