The U.S. Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court today by a 53-47 vote.
Three leftist Republicans joined Democrats in the historic event. Jackson will be the first justice in U.S. history who doesn’t know the difference between a man and woman because she is not a biologist.
Jackson, a soft-on-crime judge who favors leniency for perverts convicted of possessing child porn, will replace outgoing Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.
What’s A Woman? I Dunno!
President Biden nominated Jackson after promising that his first SCOTUS nominee would be a black woman, and that men, whites, Hispanics, Eskimos, American Indians, and Asian and Pacific Islanders need not apply.
Whether Biden will send federal troops and man-eating police dogs to the court to make sure white justices use separate restrooms and water fountains is unknown. That question aside, Jackson’s confirmation hearings exposed two truths:
Jackson has a soft spot for perverts and weirdos, and she buys into communist “gender” nonsense.
As to the first, GOP senators hammered Jackson on her long record as a friend of child-porn users. Of particular interest was her sentence for Wesley Hawkins, who sent kiddie porn to an undercover detective.
Jackson sent him to jail for a whole three months. The newly minted justice did so despite federal sentencing guidelines of eight to 10 years in the slammer, and a prosecutor’s recommendation for two years.
Speaking to Hawkins at sentencing, Jackson told him, “you were only involved in this for a few months,” and “other than your engagement with the undercover officer, there isn’t an indication that you were in any online communities to advance your collecting behavior.”
Jackson also said the age difference between Hawkins, then 18, and one of the kids in the porn was a mere 10 years.
Before that, though, Jackson spilled the beans about her crackpot leftism.
Under questioning from GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Jackson said she didn’t know what a woman is.
The exchange was revealing either for how crazy judges have become, or that they’ll say anything to avoid inviting the fury of the whackjob left:
Blackburn: Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman?’
Jackson: Can I provide a definition, no. I can’t.
Blackburn: You can’t?
Jackson: Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.
That line launched 1,000 Twitter memes:
Jackson also believes that The New York Times’ 1619 Project is real history, and mentioned it prominently during a speech in 2020.
The problem with citing the project, of course, was its central thesis before the Times was forced to correct it. The United States seceded from Great Britain, we were supposed to believe, to preserve slavery. It was a strikingly ignorant, categorically false claim.
One would expect Jackson to know that, given Biden’s claim that she is the brainiest judge since Chief Justice John Marshall. Then again, Biden also thinks his son Hunter is the “smartest man I know.”
No Change in Court Balance
Though Jackson makes her leftist court colleagues look rational, her elevation to the highest court in the land won’t change the balance of the court. The “conservative” wing of the court still outnumbers the leftist wing.
The three Republicans who voted to confirm Jackson were the usual suspects: Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitt Romney of Utah.
Biden doesn’t favor blacks on the high court unless they are leftists. He tried to destroy Associate Justice Clarence Thomas by permitting crackpot Anita Hill to level ridiculous sex-harassment allegations that Biden thought were rubbish. And he vowed to filibuster the confirmation of federal judge Janice Roger Brown if President George W. Bush had nominated her to the court.
Breyer, whom Jackson will replace when he retires this summer, has been an associate since 1994. President Bill Clinton nominated the justice in May 1993, about 18 months before he, Clinton, “did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
