Marsha Blackburn's latest attempt to smear Ketanji Brown Jackson ends in disaster

Marsha Blackburn's latest attempt to smear Ketanji Brown Jackson ends in disaster
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United States Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennesee) tried to smear Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee – on Monday evening and it backfired spectacularly.

"Joe Biden’s historic nominee to the Supreme Court can’t even define what a woman is," Blackburn tweeted, referring to a question that she asked Jackson during last week's Senate confirmation hearings. It was but one snippet of a line of inquiry that was widely ridiculed as demeaning and pointless.

Jackson, however, did not fail to define the word "woman." Instead, she informed Blackburn that it was not her job as a potential jurist on the nation's highest court to do so. Blackburn, for her part, has yet to share her definition of the word.

The internet never forgets, and Twitter let Blackburn have it.







Blackburn's public displays of cluelessness are nothing new. On Wednesday, she mixed up the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.

"The Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—not abortions," she tweeted.

Twitter refused to let her forget it.




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