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Donald Trump Tears Into Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee

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OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.


President Donald Trump is never one to hide what he is thinking and that includes President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The former president spoke to a crowd at his rally in Commerce, Georgia on Saturday night where he swiped at the nominee.

“The left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is,” he said.

“If she can’t even say what a woman is. How on earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?” the former president said.

“A party that’s unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different, in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power,” he said.

His comments came after days of hearings for the nominee in the Senate in which Brown said she could not define what a woman is.

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It was a tough question for Ketanji Brown Jackson after she was questioned on the topic by Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

The senator quoted the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who said, “Supposed inherent differences are no longer accepted as a ground for race or national origin classifications. Physical differences between men and women, however, are enduring. The two sexes are not fungible. A community made up exclusively of one sex is different from a community composed of both.”

Then the senator asked Brown, “Do you agree with Justice Ginsburg that there are physical differences between men and women that are enduring?”

“Senator, respectfully, I am not familiar with that particular quote or case, so it’s hard for me to comment as to whether or not,” the Supreme Court nominee said before th senator interrupted her and the conversation began,” Brown said.

“I’d love to get your opinion on that, and you can submit that. Do you interpret Justice Ginsburg’s meaning of men and women as male and female?

“Again, because I don’t know the case, I do not know how I’d interpret it. I’d need to read the whole thing,” the nominee said.

“Ok. And can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” Blackburn said.

“Can I provide a definition?” Brown responded.

“No. I can’t,” the nominee said.

“You can’t?” Blackburn said quizzically.

“Not in this context. I’m not a biologist,” Brown said.

It was one of the reasons that Senate Majority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell decided not to vote for her.

“After studying the nominee’s record and watching her performance this week, I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to our highest Court,” he said in a speech to the Senate. “First, Judge Jackson refuses to reject the fringe position that Democrats should try to pack the Supreme Court. Justices Ginsburg and Breyer had no problem denouncing this unpopular view and defending their institution. I assumed this would be an easy softball for Judge Jackson. But it wasn’t.”

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“The nominee suggested there are two legitimate sides to the issue,” the minority leader said. “She testified that she has a view on the matter but would not share it. She inaccurately compared her non-answer to a different, narrower question that a prior nominee was asked. But Judge Jackson seemingly tipped her hand. She said she would be, ‘thrilled to be one of however many.’ The opposite of the Ginsburg and Breyer sentiment. The most radical pro-court-packing fringe groups badly wanted this nominee for this vacancy. Judge Jackson was the court-packers’ pick. And she testified like it.”

He also took issue with her position on illegal immigration and other areas where he found her soft on crime.

“This is one area where Judge Jackson’s trial court records provide a wealth of information. And it is troubling,” he said. “The Judge regularly gave certain terrible kinds of criminals light sentences that were beneath the sentencing guidelines and beneath the prosecutors’ requests. The Judge herself, this week, used the phrase ‘policy disagreement’ to describe this subject. The issue isn’t just the sentences. It’s also the Judge’s rhetoric in trial transcript and the creative ways she bent the law. In one instance, Judge Jackson used COVID as a pretext to essentially rewrite a criminal justice reform law from the bench and make it retroactive, which Congress had declined to do.”

“She did so to cut the sentence of a fentanyl trafficker while Americans died in huge numbers from overdoses,” he said. “Judge Jackson declined to walk Senators through the merits of her reasoning in specific cases. She just kept repeating that it was her discretion, and if Congress didn’t like it, it was our fault for giving her the discretion. That is hardly an explanation as to why she uses her discretion the way she does. It was not reassuring to hear Judge Jackson essentially say that if Senators want her to be tough on crime, we need to change the law, take away her discretion, and force her to do it. That response just seems to confirm that deeply-held personal policy views seep into her jurisprudence. And that is exactly what the record suggests.”

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