GOP Scrutinizes Biden Judicial Pick’s Writings on Gender, Race

July 10, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

President Joe Biden’s nominee to sit on San Jose’s US district court faced conservative scrutiny for her writings about how laws that regulate public conduct based on whether someone is a man or woman can be applied to intersex individuals.

Senate Judiciary Republicans on Thursday grilled Noël Wise, a California state court judge, on a Time magazine article that discussed how the legal system treats individuals who are born with or develop genitals, chromosomes, or reproductive organs that don’t match into a mutually-exclusive male-female sex binary.

GOP panel members admonished Wise for writing the 2017 piece and accused her of ...

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