It seems that Joe Biden’s appointee to the Supreme Court can’t. And incidentally she is presumably a woman.
What we have here is somebody who is obviously intelligent enough to understand that giving the obvious answer to this question is going to turn off a lot of Democrats and probably scuttle her nomination to the Supreme court. This doesn’t say as much about her as it does about the Democrats who nominated her
The sad part is that while most of us would consider that a disqualifying problem, to most Democrats it’s a definite boon.
As best I can tell no further examination of this woman is needed to show us that she would be an utter disaster.
Addendum: more confirmation [1].
When does life begin, in your opinion,” Senator Kennedy asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for starters.
“Senator… um… I don’t… know,” Judge Jackson replied, followed by an uneasy, awkward laugh.
“Do you have a belief?” Kennedy pressed.
“I have, um, personal religious and otherwise beliefs that have nothing to do with the law in terms of when life begins,” Jackson responded.
“Do you have a personal belief though about when life begins?” Kennedy probed.
“I have a religious view that I set aside when I am ruling on cases,” Jackson evaded again.
Senator Kennedy pushed further on the point, asking Judge Jackson an important follow-up, “When does equal protection of the laws attach to a human being?”
“Well Senator, um… I believe that the Supreme Court… um… actually I, I actually don’t know the answer to that question — I’m sorry — I don’t,” Judge Jackson responded, again with an ill-timed grin on her face as her initially confident answer turned to another know-nothing response.
Now, remember what I said yesterday [2]:
What we will see is Democrats using their majority status to ram through the nomination process somebody who’s only apparent qualifications are that she’s the right sex and the right color, and that she’ll tell us all that the constitution says it’s okay to kill babies.
Does anybody really think she doesn’t know the answer to these questions, or is it that she just doesn’t want to answer for fear of costing herself votes?
Go ahead and tell me I didn’t call this one.