Donald Trump has slammed Supreme Court candidate Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying he will not vote for her because she refused to define the term “woman” during Senate confirmation hearings.
Under questioning from Republicans, Jackson repeatedly refused to define the term “woman” at Senate hearings this week.
‘Physical disparities between men and women are lasting,’ Senator Marsha Blackburn said at Tuesday’s session, quoting late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The sexes are not interchangeable. A community made up entirely of one sex is not the same as one made up of both.’
Do you agree with Justice Ginsburg that men and women have anatomical differences that are permanent?’ Senator Smith inquired.
When Jackson claimed she had never heard the quote, Blackburn asked directly: ‘Can you define the word ”woman”?’ ‘Can I provide a definition?’ Jackson responded.
‘No, I can’t,’ she declared, before adding: ‘I’m not a biologist.’ Her statement has now brought the ire of former US president, Donald Trump.
Speaking at a rally in Commerce, Georgia on Saturday night, March 26, Trump blasted Jackson’s stance which comes hot on the heels of the controversy of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas’ NCAA title.
‘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,’ said Trump. ‘If she can’t even say what a woman is. How on earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?’
‘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,’ added Trump.