Commentary When Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, during Jackson’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to define the word “woman,” she got the response “I can’t.” When Blackburn responded with an incredulous “You can’t?” Jackson replied: “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.” It takes a biologist to define a woman? Does Jackson think we’re morons? In a way, yes. Or she doesn’t care. She’s a progressive, and progressives have been redefining language—English and many others—to fit their purposes dating back to the Spanish Civil War and undoubtedly earlier. (See Davis Hunt III at The Pamphleteer.) Jackson bloody well knows what a woman is. The nominee has known this all her life, as we all have. But these days, in her part of the political world, she’s not supposed to. So, she lied. She simply parsed her words in order not to offend a …