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A demand to define ‘woman’ injects gender politics into Jackson’s confirmation hearings.
Slimes ^ | March 23, 2022 | Jonathan Whiteman

Posted on 03/26/2022 9:01:01 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Republicans have spent hours this week trying to portray Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as an extremist on issues of race and an apologist for child sexual abusers. Late Tuesday, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, added another social issue to the list of cultural grievances the G.O.P. is foisting upon her in her confirmation hearings: gender — specifically, what makes a woman a woman.

Transgender rights are dominating outrage on the right, after the Republican governors of Indiana and Utah vetoed bans on the participation of transgender women in women’s sports in recent days and a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, won a collegiate swimming championship.

Ms. Blackburn brought that swimmer up late Tuesday as Judge Jackson’s first day of questioning was coming to a close, then asked, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”

As she and other judicial nominees before her have done regularly, Judge Jackson dodged the question as outside of her role on the bench, saying, “I’m not a biologist.”

But Ms. Blackburn pressed the point — and the hot-button issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: biologist; jonathanwhiteman; ketanjibrownjackson; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; paulryan; scotus; wisconsin; woman
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This got me thinking...

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1 posted on 03/26/2022 9:01:01 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

It wasn’t that she wasn’t a biologist.

It’s that she wasn’t a mind reader.

The definitions are changing so fast right now, you can’t ever
give a solid answer. You have to look for a way out instead.


2 posted on 03/26/2022 9:12:03 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: DoodleBob
Republicans have spent hours this week trying to portray Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as an extremist on issues of race and an apologist for child sexual abusers.

Maybe that's because she is an extremist on issues of race and an apologist for child sexual abusers? Just a hunch of course.

And where was the concern over the Democrats trying to portray Kavanaugh as a sexual predator? These people can just kiss my ---

3 posted on 03/26/2022 9:13:45 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: DoodleBob

since she doesn’t even know what makes her a woman, maybe she should ask the jo Brandon since he picked her specifically because of it...


4 posted on 03/26/2022 9:17:31 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: DoodleBob

Injected politics? Sheesh, these hearings are ALL politics. Always have been.


5 posted on 03/26/2022 9:19:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: DoodleBob

Nice punch line.


6 posted on 03/26/2022 9:29:05 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: DoodleBob

Someone said “Clarence Thomas should come bac k and declare himself the first black woman on the supreme court


7 posted on 03/26/2022 9:31:36 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DoodleBob

A Great thing to tell her would be “Well, since you can’t define a woman, how are you gonna be the first woman on the SC?”


8 posted on 03/26/2022 9:33:03 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DoodleBob

As if the commie ‘RATS’ NEVER introduce “gender politics” into the Supreme Court Justice hearing. What a bunch of morons.


9 posted on 03/26/2022 9:37:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: DoodleBob; Conservative4Life



10 posted on 03/26/2022 9:39:28 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: DoodleBob
Q: Does she fit in your coupe?
A: By herself she's a group.
11 posted on 03/26/2022 9:41:53 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: DoodleBob

‘A: I can’t tell, I’m not Jersey Trash”

__________

Easy now...


12 posted on 03/26/2022 9:48:50 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: DoodleBob

Win or lose the simple fact that Republicans just accept what they claim is an inevitable confirmation is unacceptable. Romney claims he will vote for this radical so McConnell and others get a pass. Once again so disappointing but expected. And people wonder why voters like myself are committed to TRUMP.


13 posted on 03/26/2022 9:51:51 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: one guy in new jersey
Oh cmon man....I lived in North Jersey for a long time. The Deplorables there are behind enemy lines and probably have deeper conservative beliefs than those in Red States because they know about liberty lost,

But Springsteen is awful. I mean, I heard he made large contributions to Asbury Park charities anonymously- he gets props for that. But his music, his "blue collar normal guy" act, and everything else embodies the worst elements of Wildwood, Cherry Hill, and all of Bergen County,

14 posted on 03/26/2022 9:54:21 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

My cockerels won’t lay eggs. What can I do about it?

I would not know. I am not a veterinarian.


15 posted on 03/26/2022 9:57:20 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

If Republicans were smart, one of their Convention prime time speakers will repeat all these lines.


16 posted on 03/26/2022 10:00:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

XY <— male
XX <— female

Problem?


17 posted on 03/26/2022 10:01:25 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting whose brains are for dinner.)
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To: DoodleBob

She was the dumbest person in the room.


18 posted on 03/26/2022 10:02:19 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Remember “Believe All Women”?
Never mind. Don’t know who they are.


19 posted on 03/26/2022 10:06:35 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: DoodleBob

The follow up is:

Since when does a person have to be a biologist to know what a woman is?

I dontseeho she can function as a person, much less a judge, if she cant dedine what a woman is.


20 posted on 03/26/2022 10:10:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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