OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.
Former President Donald Trump spared no effort in bashing President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson, for several responses and non-answers she gave to questions about her record asked by GOP senators.
“The left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is,” Trump said during a Saturday evening “Save America” rally in Commerce, Ga.
“If she can’t even say what a woman is. How on earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?” the former president added.
“A party that’s unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different, in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power,” he noted, as did other observers on social media.
“If Judge Jackson can’t even say what a woman is, how on earth could she be trusted to say what the Constitution is!” -President Trump
STOP Her Confirmation–> https://t.co/ioSml4zmfQ pic.twitter.com/ocXTFxKybD
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 27, 2022
The former president’s remarks come after three days’ worth of hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week in which senators attempted to get answers to a number of concerning issues but often failed to do so.
During one exchange, Jackson refused to answer whether or not she supported packing the court with more justices, something that many far-left Democrats have been pushing for to overwhelm the current court’s constitutionalist majority:
Sen. DICK DURBIN: “Another issue which has come up to my surprise, and I have spoken with my Republican colleagues about their fascination with it, is the notion of the composition of the Supreme Court, which euphemistically is referred to as court-packing. I have said on the floor, and I will repeat it here, there is exactly one living senator who has effectively changed the size of the Supreme Court. That was the Republican leader, Sen. McConnell, who shrank the court to eight seats for nearly a year in 2016 when he blocked President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. Now, that question on court-packing was posed to Amy Coney Barrett, justice on the court, when she appeared before this committee, she was asked about it. She said, and I quote, ‘Could not opine on it.’ And on many other policy issues, quote, ‘I will not express a view on a matter of public policy, especially one that is politically controversial, because that is inconsistent with the judicial role.’ I do believe we should have rules and traditions and precedents, but we shouldn’t have a separate set of rules for Republican nominees and Democratic nominees. So, Judge Jackson, if a senator were to ask you today about proposals about changing the current size of the Supreme Court, what would your response be?”
JACKSON: “Senator, I agree with Justice Barrett and her response to that question when she was asked before this committee. Again, my north star is the consideration of the proper role of a judge in our constitutional scheme. In my view, judges should not be speaking to political issues, and certainly not a nominee for a position on the Supreme Court. So, I agree with Justice Barrett.”
Last fall, a 34-member commission performed a 180-day study of potential changes to the Supreme Court, including court-packing and setting term limits for justices.
The final draft of the 288-page report didn’t offer specific recommendations, but rather provided a summary of arguments for and against critical issues ranging from court-packing to judicial term limits.
Jackson was also engaged in an exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) regarding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, leading to him storming out of the hearing.
