The comment came as the high court weighs the legality of a Tennessee law that bans gender procedures for children.
FILE - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is seen after her formal investiture ceremony at the Supreme Court, in Washington, Sept. 30, 2022.
Jackson cited language in the Virginia laws which prohibited an individual from acting in a way that was inconsistent with their nature and compared it to language in the Tennessee law. “It’s interesting to me that we now have this different argument and I wonder if whether Virginia could have gotten away with what they did here by just making a classification argument in the way that Tennessee did in this case.”“This is just embarrassing for the Court,” former attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz said.
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