Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) attacked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on abortion during a prime-time on Tuesday evening.
Blackburn attacked Jackson for language in a brief she filed as a young attorney. At issue was anti-choice activists who would shout at women entering abortion clinics. Blackburn, who is not an attorney but does have a degree in home economics from Mississippi State, suggested "incendiary rhetoric" about clinic protesters was actually a smear on all women who support any limits on abortion.
"I'm a pro-life woman. 79% of the American women (sic) support restrictions of some type on abortion," Blackburn claimed. "And so, I find it incredibly concerning that someone who is nominated to a position with life tenure on the Supreme Court holds such a hostile view toward a view that is held as a mainstream belief, that every life is worth protecting."
But Blackburn didn't have her facts straight. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noted "it wasn't a general insult of pro-life people."
Jackson, then pretty new in private practice, was the third-listed author on that brief. But regardless of who wrote it, it wasn\u2019t a general insult of pro-life people.— Daniel Dale (@Daniel Dale) 1648000350
Blackburn went on to describe Roe v. Wade as "one of the most brazen acts of judicial activism."
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