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“People are beginning to see the importance of that bench,” said Gina Ortiz Jones, founder of the Find Out PAC.Gina Ortiz Jones is on a mission—one that may be her most challenging yet. And that’s saying something for the former under secretary of the Air Force, who served under President Joe Biden until March 2023.
Jones said she’s confident that “people are very motivated to hold somebody accountable” for their loss of reproductive rights in Texas, and that flipping three seats on the state Supreme Court may not be as difficult as it seems.Indeed, it’s been 30 years since a Democrat has served on the Lone Star State’s top court. If Jones is successful in helping to elect even one of the Democratic judges running for the bench—DaSean Jones, Christine Weems and Bonnie Lee Goldstein—it will be historic.
The nine justices currently seated on the Texas Supreme Court are all Republicans. Since 2021, when the Texas Legislature passed the Texas Heartbeat Act—banning abortion after the first detection of embryonic activity, which is earlier than most women know they’re pregnant—they’ve ruled on a number of reproductive health-related cases that have made women’s health care increasingly more dangerous throughout the state.
Without a sweeping turnover of the Texas Legislature, attorney general’s office and governor’s office, chipping away at the state Supreme Court’s partisan majority is voters’ best chance to slow the assault on reproductive rights.
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