State Courts Are New Progressive Focus After Abortion Ruling

Progressives are paying more attention to state courts in an attempt to protect abortion access and other priorities while acknowledging they’re playing catch up.

“Lots of folks are already focused on state courts, unfortunately they’re all on the right,” Molly Coleman, executive director of the progressive young lawyers group People’s Parity Project.

“The right knew that if they succeeded at the federal level, this was going to move to the state courts, so they’ve been preparing for that and the left, once again, is behind,” Coleman said Saturday at a conference the organization hosted in Washington.

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