Legal leftist exposed at Jackson hearings

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

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For example, despite having a history of paying homage to critical race theory, Jackson repeatedly spoke during the hearings as if she were barely familiar with its precepts.

Likewise, to protect legal options for the aggressive agenda of transgender activists, she infamously claimed to not know how to define a “woman.” And even when Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse repeatedly teed up a softball for her, almost begging her to agree that college students should have no heckler’s veto against free speech, she kept dodging commitment on that issue as well.

Meanwhile, even if there may be good explanations for some of Jackson’s sentencing decisions, it is simply a fact that Jackson has spent a quarter-century, in multiple forums and jobs, suggesting, and ruling, that child pornographers be treated more leniently. The problem, though, is broader than that. Even no-nonsense legal analysts who said Republican questioners failed to acknowledge the context in her favor regarding child pornographers noted that her “theory” of sentencing would undermine the federal sentencing guidelines in favor of leniency all across the board, not just with sex offenders.

The larger problem in all this, though, isn’t that Jackson’s jurisprudential approach is uniquely objectionable — although, despite some nods to reason, it is objectionable — but that she appears to be part of a whole leftist legal movement that is hostile to American norms. Just as Sasse noted that even avowedly liberal professors are outraged by their more extreme-left colleagues, so too are old-fashioned liberal lawyers and judges — in other words, within the “mainstream” — now outshouted by the hard-left activist groups that pressured President Joe Biden to nominate Jackson. The hard Left’s agenda for the courts involves a preoccupation with subjects related to race and sex. It holds that the law, rather than being colorblind, should treat some races “more equally than others” in order to produce desired social outcomes. It holds that gender norms should be undermined and children hypersexualized at early ages by state instructors.

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Her obfuscation about defining a "woman" became the subject of myriad jokes and memes on Facebook and deservedly so.  While she may have been the victim of a far-left prep session, it exposes how their agenda actually hurts biological women.   Also, the left now knows that CRT is an abomination to most Americans so they dodge on that issue too.