Senate Republicans Help Land New US Supreme Court Judge on Bench Who Can’t Define the Word “Woman”

Thursday afternoon, April 7th, the US Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, as the first Black female Supreme Court Justice in a vote of 53-47 in favor. With this confirmation, Jackson, will become the first Black woman and the first public defender to serve a life appointment on the US Supreme Court. The Associated Press reported that Jackson will replace Justice Stephen Breyer at the end of the term this summer when he officially retires.

 

Just to jog the memory of my readers, this is the woman who could not offer a simple definition of the word “woman”. Why? Because, she said, “I’m not a biologist”.

This one statement alone would concern most thinking people as to exactly who they were dealing with. Little children can define what a woman is, can’t they? I think yes! It’s not hard to think of a woman as distinct from a man. Perhaps a description of one who wears a dress would fit, or a physical description of one who carries a baby, takes care of children, thinks a certain way, or has, well, you know, on her upper torso, and maybe a thousand other descriptions. But, someone might say that I’m a traditional thinking, perhaps old fashioned man. At least I can define “woman”.

But, maybe that’s what the real hidden agenda is here. To nominate and confirm court justices who blur and disappear the distinctions between man and woman, right and wrong, up and down so that we all exist in a state of perpetual confusion that the globalists control ala “1984” style.

 

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Jackson won the historic Senate confirmation as the 116th justice with support of three Republican senators—Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitt Romney, R-Utah. These three Republicans joined with all 50 Democrats to confirm Jackson’s nomination by a vote of 53-47.

Jackson, was nominated by President Joe Biden to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who is retiring this summer. She will not take the judicial oath of office for the high court until Breyer retires. Breyer’s retirement is expected at the end of the current term in late June or early July.

During the Senate confirmation process Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that Jackson lacked seriously needed qualifications. In late February Cruz stated that “too many parts of our executive and judicial branches are at risk of politicization… when Americans face crises directly related to our legal system with unenforced federal laws at our border and in prosecutors’ offices across the country.”

 

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, also voted against her nomination to the Supreme Court because of her philosophy. Hawley was the first Republican to publicly raise questions about Jackson’s history of sentencing child porn offenders. And he was among the most vocal Republicans at the Senate hearings pointing out her lenient treatment of child pornography offenders and other criminals.

Hawley listed seven child pornography cases in which Jackson sentenced the convicted defendant to the lowest sentence permitted by law, lower than federal guidelines recommended and prosecution requested. Child pornography often leads to child molestation as evidenced by the serious issue created for the Disney corporation in Florida. That corresponds to a 1987 report by the U.S.A. National Institute of Justice report which described “a disturbing correlation” between traders of child pornography and acts of child molestation.

 

In another exchange, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., made headlines by asking Jackson the simple question, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” Jackson responded that she could not, because, “I’m not a biologist”.

In a subsequent exchange Blackburn quizzed Jackson on abortion and transgender rights. Blackburn pointed out that Jackson had “attacked pro-life women,”  who Jackson had described pro-life protesters outside an abortion clinic as a “hostile, noisy crowd of in-your-face-protesters.” Interestingly, Jackson didn’t have a problem describing what she thought of pro-life women.

In the exchange Blackburn asked Jackson if she viewed all pro-life women in the same way. “When you go to church and knowing there are pro-life women there, do you look at them, thinking of them in that way — that they’re noisy, hostile, in-your-face? Do you think of them, do you think of pro-life women like me that way?” Jackson responded, “It’s not the way I think of or characterize people.”

Blackburn later said she would not vote for Jackson because LGBTQP “dark-money leftist groups” are “trying to erase woman.”

 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — Genesis 1:27 

 

Jackson’s confirmation creates a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit where she had only served as a judge there since June 2021. Prior to that she was a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013. Very rapid promotion for a judge who has difficulty defining legal terms which she will deal with in many US Title cases of discrimination, sports and others.

Jackson knows her way around the SCOTUS as she is a former clerk to Breyer. Other justices on the current court who served as SCOTUS clerks are: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., and Justices Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. This will make Jackson one of four female justices, which is the largest number in the court’s history. And she will be the first former federal public defender to sit on the court.

Interestingly, after four days of public hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 4, deadlocked 11-11 along partisan lines, blocked Jackson’s nomination from being sent to the full Senate. NY Senator Chuck Schumer subsequently made a successful motion on the Senate floor to discharge the nomination from the committee. That procedural maneuver set the stage for the final vote on her nomination.

Republican senators maintained that based on her record, Jackson is “soft on crime.” Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Josh Hawley, R- Missouri, and Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, all offered proof that Jackson favored child predators over victims in her sentencing as a trial judge, and terrorists in her role as a former public defender. These charges were rebuffed by the American Bar Association where Jackson received a unanimous “well qualified” rating from the ABA’s standing committee on the federal judiciary.

Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., but she grew up in Miami, Florida. She was a champion speech and debate student in junior high school and student body president in senior high school. She later attended Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. She also attended Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude.

The upcoming term of the court is already shaping up to be a blockbuster. The court will hear arguments in two affirmative action challenges to the admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina (Jackson said she plans to recuse from the Harvard case). The justices also agreed to decide a race-based challenge to an Alabama redistricting plan, a key Clean Water Act issue, and a major speech challenge involving LGBTQP issues and public accommodation laws. The question will soon arise as to how she defines “woman” when discrimination cases land before the court.

 

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