I think there's once again movement by progressive, feminist legal centers to attack and smear conservative judicial nominees and to tear down institutions that have been part of our constitutional structure from the beginning, said Jennifer Braceras, director of the new center.. ..…

But it begins to look less like a demolition derby than a board meeting, spanning Vermont to Hawaii, in search of a new center of gravity for a party that’s got to get it right this time—on climate, for example, and inequality, and the forever war. . . ..…