Recently, in the middle of an article talking about the pending confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the recently opened seat on the Supreme Court, Politico issued an article that falsely claimed that Jackson would hold the title of the first black justice on the Supreme Court, before trying to quickly issue a correction.
“Let’s walk you through how the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black Supreme Court justice is likely to unfold this week, claimed the news source in its original article. As of writing, the word “female” has been tacked on after the word “Black.”
Their article still says KBJ will be the “first black SCOTUS” https://t.co/gkN8c2jpxH pic.twitter.com/VAyvIp50Lr
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 4, 2022
“Correction: This minute has been corrected to reflect that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first Black female Supreme Court justice,” issued a correction at the tail end of the article.
Serving on the highest court in the country from October 1967 to October 1991, Thurgood Marshall was the actual first black justice to hold a seat on the Supreme Court in American history. Marshall was then succeeded by Clarence Thomas, yet another African-American, as Marshall’s seat opened in 2991. Thomas, a constitutional originalist who normally throws their votes along with the court’s conservative bloc, still serves to this day as an associate justice.
Despite this asterisk at the end style correction, Jackson went viral this past month for refusing to give a definition for the word “woman” when asked by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) during the confirmation hearing.
“Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” asked Blackburn.
“Can I provide a definition?” Jackson stated again.
“Mmhmm, yeah,” Blackburn stated.
“I can’t,” claimed Jackson.
“You can’t?” posited Blackburn.
“Not — in this context, I’m not a biologist,” stated Jackson while laughing.
“So you believe the meaning of the word ‘woman’ is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?” pressed Blackburn on Jackson.
“Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes,” Jackson retorted, seemingly suggesting that she could only give out decisions based on arguments and the law. “If there is a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and I decide, so — I’m not —”
“The fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about,” Blackburn went on.
The attempted erasure of Clarence Thomes by progressives is a not infrequent occurrence. In the wake of the Supreme Court giving out a notification to the public that Thomas had been taken to the hospital showing flu-like symptoms, quite a few leftists across social media platforms claimed they wanted the 73-year-old to just pass away.