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One of America’s top abortion rights lawyers was just confirmed as a federal judge

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One of America’s top abortion rights lawyers was just confirmed as a federal judge

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World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

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Julie Rikelman, the abortion rights movement’s top Supreme Court litigator, will serve on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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Federal rulings set a legal precedent and can then be used in future rulings. So all of her court decisions can/will be used in the future to convince judges to make similar rulings.

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