Republican Senators Melt Down Over Biden’s Promise to Nominate A Black Woman to SCOTUS
to the highest court in the country and will announce his choice by the end of the month. Ever since, as you might’ve guessed, Republican Senators who will be voting on Biden’s nominee have really said the quiet part out loud, suggesting that there’s not a Black woman in the country who could possibly be the best pick for the role.Biden’s pledge to affirmative action in a Friday appearance on a Mississippi radio program.
“Black women are, what, 6% of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible,’” Cruz said, because the appointment of a Black woman, rather than the appointments of her almost exclusively Ivy League-educated, white male predecessors, is presumably the real exclusionary act, here.
“It’s actually an insult to Black women, if he [Biden] came and said ‘I’m going to put the best jurist on the court’, and he looked at a number of people and he ended up nominating a Black woman he could credibly say ‘OK, I’m nominating the person who is most qualified.’ He’s not even pretending to say that,” Cruz continued, echoing Wicker’s sentiment that the Black women on Biden’s shortlist are just innately unqualified. “He’s saying if you’re a white guy, tough luck.
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