Texas State Rep. Donna Howard, District 48, Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr., Alabama solicitor general, and Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, are sworn in during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Texas Unconstitutional Abortion Ban and the Role of the Shadow Docket, in Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, U.S., September 29, 2021. Tom Williams/Pool via REUTERS