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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak in Alabama next month at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a church bombing that killed four girls in 1963.

SCOTUS justices found that Alabama legislatures denied African American residents a fair chance of electing a representative. The high court then ordered the creation of a second majority Black district in the Yellowhammer State.

State battles over abortion are leading to state constitutional amendments – an option in all states and available directly to citizens in 18 states. Before the Dobbs ruling, abortion-related amendments invariably sought to limit protection for abortion rights by clarifying that there is no state constitutional right to abortion.

The United States Supreme Court will not reconsider the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month.Yesterday, Supreme Court…