[More than three-quarters (76%) of Americans want President Joe Biden to consider all potential nominees to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, according to a recent ABC News-Ipsos poll. (more here)]
George Rebane
Bumblebrain joins the short list of known presidents who have chosen their SCOTUS nominees based on race and gender, and, of course, their proper ideological orientation. We all know that, along with the other government branches, SCOTUS is a political organization. It attempts to distinguish itself by claiming otherwise. Reagan limited one of his choices to (white?) women only, and Bush1 limited his choice to black men only.
Black Americans make up about 13.4% of our population of 332M, and of those 50.8% or 22.6M are women. Given a chance, candidate Bumblebrain promised to put a black woman on the bench, to bring the court’s black contingent up to three or 33% of its justices. (Actually, the racist Dems don’t recognize Justice Thomas as a black because he votes mostly conservative, and therefore the lamestream lackies ignore him and his work.)
So after bragging to his base that now he’ll seat a black woman, he got massive pushback some of which even included his own propaganda organs who correctly feared that such naked criteria, left to themselves, would really be politically damaging. That got the WH team with room temp IQs busy trying to get that horse back into the barn. Bumblebrain himself got in front of mic to assure everyone that he really was interested in the candidate’s lawyering credentials, but then slipped and admitted that the interest was limited to qualified black females.
I’m not sure how the Dems are going to handle Bumblebrain going forward. The man definitely did not help himself by voting against Clarence Thomas, and today his woke supporters are not even sure what defines a person as a ‘woman’. So here is the way I see it shaping up.
Bottom line, the Bumblebrain is a hypocritical, politics-first, racist when the Left argues that he just continued in the established tradition of Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush . A little thought reveals this. Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor as part of the nation’s awakening to the long-suppressed role of women. His appointment of the first female justice was lauded by all, and rightfully so. Bush1 appointed Clarence Thomas in order to maintain the multiracial composition of the court with the retirement of its first black justice Thurgood Marshall.
Bumblebrain will appoint a black woman because he wants to retain as much of the black and progressive vote as possible during the next two national elections – it’s a matter of retaining Democrat power in our national and state governments. Before his nominating a black woman, SCOTUS already has two blacks, 22.2% of the court and more than the black share (13.4%) of our population. Biden wants to pump the court’s black share up to 33%. And the court already has three women justices, so he’s not breaking any new ground by increasing that to four or 45% of its sitting members. The argument would be different if he simply wanted to bring female membership up to par.
His apparent real criteria in order of importance are 1) woman, 2) black, 3) demonstrated leftwing ideology, 4) has some demonstrated knowledge of law. The population of such politically qualifying and credible candidates is relatively small. If being a member of some accredited bar is a requirement, then there are only 107,000 (8% of all lawyers) black women, out of over 497,000 practicing female lawyers, who make it past that hurdle. Women make up 37.4% of the total number of 1,330,000 lawyers in the US. Given that identical proportions hold for lawyers of all races and genders, and since legal qualifications are not a high requirement for the new justice, Biden is then peremptorily excluding 92% of equally and/or better qualified lawyers from being considered for the job. Our society’s high price for bespoke progressive ‘equity’.
Correction – As pointed out in a comment below by reader Steven Frisch, Justice Sotomayor is not black. Mea culpa.
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