Katanji Brown Jackson says she's a neutral arbiter of the law, but also refuses to define the word woman.

And the media object to senators asking Jackson very, very, very basic questions.

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Well, it seems that there are a lot of qualifications to be a Supreme Court nominee.

You have to have gone to, presumably, an Ivy League school or something like an Ivy League school,

probably have to have been on law review, maybe clerk for a Supreme Court Justice. And also, you're supposed to be able to define basic words and also no basic logic.

So if somebody in a Senate hearing were to ask you, what is two plus two? And you, the nominee,

were to say, I am no mathematician. I can't answer that question. I am no mathematician.

This should be immediately disqualifying. If somebody were to say

to a Supreme Court nominee, the typical human being, how many fingers does the typical human being have?

And the person said, I can't answer that. I don't, I am, I am not a doctor. I can't tell you how many

fingers a typical human being has. This would be automatically disqualifying because here should be the

rule. If a two-year-old could answer the question and you cannot,

this means that you are either an idiot or you are being deliberately idiotic

in order to pander to the political flavor of the month.

And this is what happened at the Supreme Court hearing for Katanji Brown Jackson,

who is historic because she is the first black female nominee.

We know that she's black because she's a black person. We know that she's female because, well, as it turns out,

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