Judge Jackson’s ‘Don’t Know Much Biology’ Moment and Our Endangered Civilization

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

That President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, fulfilling his promise to put a black woman up for a seat on the bench, yet Judge Jackson pled the Fifth and then ignorance when asked in confirmation hearings to define one of Biden’s two prerequisites—what a woman is—will forever live in infamy in the annals of Court history.