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If Ketanji Brown Jackson Says She Doesn’t Know What A ‘Woman’ Is, Why Does She Use The Word So Much In Her Judicial Opinions?
The Federalist ^ | 03/23/2022 | Elle Reynolds

Posted on 03/23/2022 4:32:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Repeatedly using a word she says she ‘can’t’ define is not a good look for a potential Supreme Court justice.

Joe Biden’s recent Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom the president has admitted was nominated in part because she is a woman, stunned listeners on Tuesday when she refused to give a definition of what a woman is.

“I can’t. … I’m not a biologist,” Jackson said after Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked her to provide a definition of the word “woman.”

But for not knowing what a “woman” is, Jackson loves to use the word. Here are 14 times she invokes the fairer sex in just the first two days of her confirmation hearings, plus 34 times she’s used the word in her legal opinions as a judge (emphasis ours).

KBJ Referenced Women 14 Times in First Two Days of Hearings

In her opening statement on day one of her confirmation hearings, Jackson opined that “I stand on the shoulders of so many who have come before me, including Judge Constance Baker Motley, who was the first African-American woman to be appointed to the bench.”

On day two, Jackson couldn’t talk about the Supreme Court’s precedent on abortion without referencing women.

Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman’s pregnancy,” she said.

“After Casey, the court has determined not so much that the right to terminate a woman’s pregnancy is fundamental,” she continued. “The right exists and it’s subject to the framework in Casey that allows for regulation.”

She also mentioned a female witness in a case related to child sex crimes, an area of law where she has been accused of handing down light sentences to child pornography offenders.

“I somehow still have nightmares about the main witness, the woman I mentioned earlier,” Jackson said, demonstrating her ability to identify the woman’s sex.

She’s also invoked the concept of womanhood to pat herself on the back for being nominated.

“I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to serve in this capacity and to be the first and only black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” she said.

And again: “Because I am a woman, because I am a black woman, all of those things people have said have been really meaningful to them.”

Yet again: “Having meaningful numbers of women and people of color, I think matters.”

And then three times in the same sentence: “I gave a speech about black women in the civil rights movement, most of the speech if not all of the speech was focused on African American women, their contributions to the civil rights movement, unsung contributions in many cases, and then some of the more recent African American women who have made claims, who have done things in our society.”

She even acknowledged not just the existence of women, but the existence of men. “We believe that we have a government of laws and not men,” she told senators. “And yet there are men and women who are acting as judges in the context of our system.”

When she spoke of her own motherhood and her own daughters, she tacitly admitted the strong connection that the telos of motherhood has to womanhood. “I know so many young women, in this country especially, who have small kids who have these momentous events and have to make a choice,” she said of balancing career obligations with children’s schedules.

And after Blackburn questioned Jackson about an opinion she’d signed referring to pro-lifers as “a hostile, noisy crowd of ‘in-your-face’ protesters,” Jackson referred to “women who wanted to enter [abortion] clinics” in her response. That opinion made five more references to a “woman” or “women.”

But that’s not the only document in Jackson’s legal record where she used the terms “woman” and “women” and assumed there will be no confusion about what she meant.

34-Plus Mentions of ‘Woman’ or ‘Women’ in Judicial Opinions

In her opinion in the case Policy & Research, LLC v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Jackson referenced “programs that seek to decrease the prevalence of teen pregnancy among eighteen- and nineteen-year-old African American and Latina women.”

She used the word “woman” four times and the word “women” twice in Azadeh v. Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In James v. United States, she wrote “woman” 11 times.

In City & County of San Francisco v. Azar, Jackson referred to “pregnant women,” “the relationship between physicians and women seeking the abortion,” “the obstacles women have in asserting their right to an abortion,” “women seeking abortions,” and “a woman seeking an emergency abortion,” in addition to stating that “women generally cannot safely secure abortions without the aid of physicians.”

In Garcia v. Roberts, she wrote about the “manner that bar admission rules in the nineteenth century unlawfully discriminated against women and African–American applicants.”

“Plaintiff Bukola Alibalogun (‘Alibalogun’) is a woman of African descent,” she said in Alibalogun v. First Coast Security Solutions, Inc.

She introduced a plaintiff similarly in Perry v. Colvin: “Plaintiff, Janell Perry, is a 46-year old woman residing in Washington, DC.”

In Beshir v. Jewell, she explained “Shirlean Beshir (‘Beshir’ or ‘Plaintiff’) is an African–American woman who was fifty-one years of age during the summer and fall of 2007.”

And in Austin-Spearman v. AARP & AARP Services Inc.: “Plaintiff Ethel Austin–Spearman is an internet savvy woman.”

Again, in Lawson v. Sessions: “Sheila Lawson is an African–American woman who began her employment as a Special Agent (‘SA’) with the FBI on October 15, 1995.”

In her description of plaintiff Geraldine Campfield in Campfield v. Commissioner of Social Security, Jackson wrote, “At the time of the alleged onset of her disability, Plaintiff was a 51-year-old woman.”

In United States v. Georgieff, she noted that defendant Jordan Georgieff had “married a second woman, Dariana Borisova,” while still married to his former wife.

Jackson repeatedly referred to “woman-owned small businesses” in her opinion in Rothe Development, Inc. v. Department of Defense.

In United States v. Hillie, a child pornography case, the judge wrote that “Charles Hillie (who was born in November of 1983) became romantically involved with a woman.”

Repeatedly using a word she says she “can’t” define is not a good look for a potential Supreme Court justice. Blackburn should ask Jackson: What did you mean by “woman” all of those times you said and wrote it?



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Indiana; US: Tennessee; US: Wisconsin
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1 posted on 03/23/2022 4:32:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s an AA LIGHTWEIGHT if I ever saw one!


2 posted on 03/23/2022 4:33:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s gonna make Sotomayor look like a genius.


3 posted on 03/23/2022 4:34:18 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank You Sen. Blackburn for asking the BEST question of the day!


4 posted on 03/23/2022 4:34:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even an insect can tell whether it is male or female.


5 posted on 03/23/2022 4:36:15 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SeekAndFind

cause it doesn’t mean wut she thinks it means...


6 posted on 03/23/2022 4:36:32 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

(“I can’t. … I’m not a biologist,” Jackson said after Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked her to provide a definition of the word “woman.”)

Yes, that truly is such a difficult question to answer.

🥴🥴🙄🙄🙄


7 posted on 03/23/2022 4:40:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Ann Archy

Consider her y’all next SCJ! We are so screwed! Unless Manchin votes her down...God help us!


8 posted on 03/23/2022 4:43:07 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Ann Archy

I wanted her to ask one more: Given that Bidum said he was going to nominate a WOMAN of COLOR I wanted her to be asked if she felt she was qualified on that basis?


9 posted on 03/23/2022 4:44:07 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: SeekAndFind
Webster weighs in (I always think of it as #4):

Definition of woman

1a: an adult female person

b: a woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation) —usually used in combination

2: WOMANKIND

3: distinctively feminine nature : WOMANLINESS

4: a woman who is a servant or personal attendant

5achiefly dialectal : WIFE

b: MISTRESS

c: GIRLFRIEND sense 2

6: a woman who is extremely fond of or devoted to something specified

10 posted on 03/23/2022 4:46:08 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: SeekAndFind

It is a very sad commentary that woman has been nominated to
the SCOTUS. She is unfit to serve, and I would compare her
to Biden and Harris. She is on that level of incompetence.

Our enemies look at what is going on. They see how low we
are sinking. It gives them cause to consider adventurism.

The Democrats have done everything they can to divide and
destroy this nation. Still, many people just don’t get it.

As a nation we need to pull our collective head out, and
get back on the right track.

I honestly don’t know if that is possible, but if anyone
can do it, I think Trump would be the man. He’s simply
too audacious to brush off.

Even though I like others out there, none of them have the
business acumen, or the personality to defend themselves
and the nation from our enemies.

This woman is a nightmare...


11 posted on 03/23/2022 4:49:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah.

It makes no sense.

Who or what is a woman?

They can’t answer. Any answer ultimately must conclude there is no such thing, or is everybody.


12 posted on 03/23/2022 4:52:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

She made it through Jr. High, High School and under graduate college without learning how humans are devided by XX and XY chromosomes?

She is either unable to learn or a bald faced lier. Since she has a law degree I believe the second.


13 posted on 03/23/2022 4:52:21 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: packagingguy
"Even an insect can tell whether it is male or female."

This should be a meme.

14 posted on 03/23/2022 4:57:32 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind
Man, woman, up, down, left, right, night, day…

What an ignorant POS.

15 posted on 03/23/2022 4:57:41 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then why is it historic to place a woman on the court?


16 posted on 03/23/2022 4:58:20 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: SeekAndFind

You do not have to be a biologist to know that males are xy...and women are XX...biologically that is.


17 posted on 03/23/2022 5:20:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Jason Whitlock is addressing this on his podcast tomorrow. The chaos created by changing word meanings and denying the truth is necessary for “change”


18 posted on 03/23/2022 5:28:41 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: SeekAndFind

For ANY word,...

If you don’t know what it means, why would you use it so much???

And secondly, given her role, why would she not find out and learn the definition?

And third, at her age, she doesnt know what a woman is? What does she think SHE is? How does she know for sure?!?

Worst. Defense. Ever. This is worse than “it depends on the definition of is, is” answer by Billy Boy.


19 posted on 03/23/2022 5:54:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Let me see if I get this...

Biden promised to nominate a black WOMAN to the Supreme Court, but the woman he nominated after saying he would nominate a woman can’t define what a woman is...

Make it make sense!!


20 posted on 03/23/2022 7:36:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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