Vogue drew the ire of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for its uneven treatment of the Supreme Court‘s latest female justices, arguing, “The liberal media isn’t happy unless they are attacking conservative women.”
Blackburn’s remarks to the Washington Examiner come as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was covered in a glowing magazine feature published in Vogue on Tuesday that stands in contrast with the media coverage granted to the justice who was confirmed two years prior, Amy Coney Barrett.
“The liberal media isn’t happy unless they are attacking conservative women, and their latest treatment of Supreme Court Justices is no exception. While Justice Jackson is glamorized by Vogue, Justice Barrett has endured seeing her entire family defamed in headlines. Democrats claim to ‘support women,’ but they really only care about supporting women who submit to their agenda,” said Blackburn, one of 22 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who interviewed Jackson earlier this year ahead of her high court nomination.
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United States Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 2022 / For @voguemagazine pic.twitter.com/5jMI3KwIbc
— Annie Leibovitz (@annieleibovitz) August 16, 2022
The author of Jackson’s latest feature is ImeIme Umana, a former law clerk for Robert Wilkins and the first black female president of Harvard Law. Umana lauded Jackson’s “eloquent, composed, and discerning” answers to lawmakers’ questions during her March Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, adding, “That heat seemed hardly to touch her.”
“Justice Jackson’s confirmation speaks to a deep-seated American desire to believe that we can transcend our past. We yearn for a country that lives up to the idealized version we hold in our minds,” Umana wrote.
Jackson, who is also a Harvard graduate and sat on the university’s second-highest governing board, has received coverage by the fashion and lifestyle outlet on several occasions since President Joe Biden nominated her in February to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Teen Vogue ran a profile in June on the latest Supreme Court justice’s daughter, Leila Jackson, highlighting the 17-year-old’s interests in poetry and painting.
But for Barrett, who did not receive a photo shoot after her 2020 confirmation under President Donald Trump’s administration, the outlet wrote about Barrett’s religious background and her position on matters of healthcare along with her views on abortion.
As the justice to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett was subject to a number of criticisms, including an October 2020 Vogue op-ed that praised her “ability to simultaneously work and parent seven children” but quickly switched course to underscore Barrett’s disagreements with the high court upholding the Affordable Care Act in 2012.
“How many of those Americans are mothers, ones whose lives will become incalculably more difficult without access to affordable health care?” author Emma Specter wrote.
Teen Vogue ran a critical op-ed in September of Barrett’s confirmation year, where an author called Trump’s nomination of Barrett a “malicious nod to RBG’s legacy.”
The same outlet also ran another op-ed arguing Barrett “lacks the judgment and sense of responsibility required for the job” in response to Barrett’s White House ceremony that was dubbed a “super-spreader event” despite it taking place outdoors, due to a number of GOP and White House officials who had tested positive for COVID-19 surrounding the event.
Throughout the years, Vogue has featured both Democratic and Republican politicians in magazine spots, including Michelle Obama‘s appearance on the 2009 cover and a 2012 feature with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Barrett, a graduate from Notre Dame Law School and a former law professor, stunned viewers during her Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in 2020 when she was asked to show her blank notepad to the television cameras, indicating she did not need to rely on external sources when answering questions before the committee.
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Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino told the Washington Examiner that since Barrett has a “conservative” background, “in the liberal media’s eyes, that means she doesn’t count.”
“It isn’t enough for Vogue’s editors that Justice Barrett is a brilliant, extraordinarily accomplished justice, legal scholar, and mother of seven. Or that she has great fashion sense,” Severino added.
Vogue and the Supreme Court did not respond to a request for comment.
