Commentary That President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, fulfilling his promise to put a black woman up for a seat on the bench, yet Judge Jackson pled the Fifth and then ignorance when asked in confirmation hearings to define one of Biden’s two prerequisites—what a woman is—will forever live in infamy in the annals of Court history. Perhaps the most consequential element of the stunning exchange between Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Judge Jackson, in which Sen. Blackburn asked the judge to “provide a definition of the word ‘woman’,” eliciting a reply from Judge Jackson of “No, I can’t,” is to be found in its transparent—and purposeful—dishonesty. It isn’t that Judge Jackson “can’t” define “woman”—something that, to put it lightly, strains all credulity, and would disqualify her in a sane world—but that she wouldn’t define what a woman is. Why wouldn’t she? Because to …
Judge Jackson’s ‘Don’t Know Much Biology’ Moment and Our Endangered Civilization
March 29, 2022
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