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Mar 23, 2022 · 03/22/2022 10:38 PM EDT. As the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson went into hour 13, Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked the Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday to define the word...
Mar 23, 2022 · Ketanji Brown Jackson Asked to Define ‘Woman’ at Hearing - The New York Times. A demand to define ‘woman’ injects gender politics into Jackson’s confirmation hearings. Senator Marsha Blackburn...
- Jonathan Weisman
Mar 23, 2022 · March 23, 2022 · 3 min read. During the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Tuesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. refused to define what a “woman” is, deferring instead...
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Blackburn tweeted after the exchange that "this is a simple question," and called Jackson's response "a major red flag." But Jordan-Young said she sees Jackson's answer, particularly the second half, reflecting the necessity of nuance. While traditional notions of sex and gender suggest a simple binary – if you are born with a penis, you are male a...
Juliet Williams, a professor of gender studies at UCLA who specializes in gender and the law, said it's important to note this isn't an entirely new debate. The category of woman has long been politically contested. Black women, she said, were not always welcomed in the category. For example, while the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote...
Blackburn's questions reflect the current debate over Thomas, a transgender woman and member of the University of Pennsylvania swimming team who made history this month when she won an NCAA swimming competition in Division I. Gender scholars and trans activists argue that critics are focused on Thomas' assignment as male at birth as the sole reason...
- Alia E. Dastagir
- Senior News Reporter
Mar 27, 2022 · She defined what it meant to be a woman - specifically a Black woman - in the long seconds it took her to find a response to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanding, “Do you agree ... that babies are...
- Monica Hesse
Mar 25, 2022 · Ketanji Brown Jackson defined what it means to be a woman, just not the way Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn wanted - The Washington Post. Advertisement. This article was published...
Jul 1, 2022 · The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Jackson, is officially becoming a justice. Jackson will be sworn as the court’s 116th justice at midday Thursday, June 30, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
