Few things had been more confusing after the Great Change than the world of politics, as suddenly generations of politicians were all functionally the same age, with long decades of struggling for and wielding power ahead of them. For some this wasn't an issue--America's oldest living ex-President, now a cute blonde southern belle, continued building houses for the poor and showed no interest in a comeback. For the rest, things settled down after an election or two, with America and the world being governed by an odd mix of generations, although all agreed that this was the most attractive bunch of rulers ever.
There was one problem, though. Judges with lifetime appointments, and particularly the Supreme Court. The fact that the Supreme Court's conservative majority was now frozen in place for the next several decades was a subject of considerable frustration to both President Rodham and her predecessor. And the judges seem to be carrying on largely unconcerned with the way society had changed with the Great Change. Some issues just weren't as important--the society-wide collapse in testosterone had been followed by a collapse in the gun market, and with violent gun crimes at a tiny fraction of the level they had been before the Change few people cared about gun control any more. Obviously no one was going to try and revive the ban on same-sex marriage! But on abortion the Five Fools, as the President mentally referred to the Supreme Court majority, were still the culture warriors of old. If only someone would turn them into Russian wolfhounds!
Of course, even abortion was less of an issue since women so seldom got pregnant against their will. (Rape hadn't entirely disappeared, but a woman rapist couldn't impregnate her victim.) But there were still people who believed in choice and others who opposed them.
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"Yes" said Elizabeth "That sounds nice."