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Biden SCOTUS Nominee Says She 'Tin can't' Define the Give-and-take 'Woman' Because She's 'Not a Biologist'

Supreme Court nominee Approximate Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday danced around defining the word "adult female" during her confirmation hearings earlier the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"Tin can you provide a definition for the word 'woman'?" Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked Jackson.

"Can I provide a definition?" she replied, dancing eyebrows showing her just reaction to the question.

"No. I can't," Jackson stated flatly.

"Yous tin't?" Blackburn said.

"Not in this context. I'thousand non a biologist," the nominee said.

"The pregnant of the word 'woman' is so unclear and controversial that you lot can't give me a definition?" the senator asked.

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"Senator, in my work as a approximate, what I do is I address disputes. If there's a dispute about a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law, and I decide, so I'm non –," Jackson said.

"The fact that you tin't give me a straight reply about something every bit fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that nosotros are hearing most," Blackburn said.

She then explained why that might be relevant by bringing up the controversy over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

"Just last week an entire generation of young girls watched as our taxpayer-funded institutions permitted a biological human to compete and beat a biological woman in the NCAA swimming championships," the senator said. "What message exercise you recall this sends to girls who aspire to compete and win in sports at the highest level?"

"Senator, I'm not sure what message that sends. If you're asking me about the legal issues related to it — those are topics that are being hotly discussed, as you say, and could come to the courtroom," Jackson said.

Blackburn answered her own question.

"I think information technology tells our girls that their voices don't affair," she said. "I call up it tells them that they're second-class citizens. And parents want to have a Supreme Court justice who is committed to preserving parental autonomy and protecting our nation's children."



Earlier, the senator said Jackson "doesn't seem to have a judicial philosophy."

"She will not be clear about where she [supports] courtroom packing. I have talked to a lot of women who were quite concerned about her record when it comes to how she'due south dealt with crime, how she's been soft on criminals, and soft on child pornographers and child abusers," Blackburn said in comments to Fox News she posted on her website.

In her opening remarks Monday, the senator expressed concerns near Jackson'due south perspective.

"You serve on the board of a school that teaches kindergarteners — 5-year-former children — that they can choose their gender and teaches them about and then-called white privilege," Blackburn said.

"This school has hosted an organization chosen 'Woke Kindergarten' and pushes an anti-racist instruction program for white families. Your public endorsement of this blazon of progressive indoctrination of our children causes one swell concern when it comes to how you may rule on cases involving parental rights," she said, according to a transcript on her website.



"Is information technology your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal organization?" the senator said, noting that Jackson had once written that judges have personal hidden agendas.

"These are answers that the American people demand to know," she said.

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Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since and so, he has written extensively for The Western Periodical on the Trump assistants also equally foreign policy and war machine problems.

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