Posted on 01/30/2022 2:39:38 AM PST by Kaslin
This week the Democratic National Committee gave Justice Steven Breyer the hook, announcing that he was retiring before he’d firmly decided to do so. When he finally responded, he made clear his intention to remain on the bench until Biden’s nominee was confirmed, which at best likely will be sometime this summer if ever. As part of a deal he made with congressman and House majority whip Jim Clyburn when he was on the ropes in the primaries, President Biden promised to nominate to this significant position a black woman, and three candidates’ names -- a weak bench if the suppositions are correct -- have been bandied about in the press. How odd to admit you are selecting a nominee on the basis of race and sex just as the Supreme Court is about to hear serious challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. Moreover, he asserts this will be an “historic” nomination, but it won’t be. (Picking an Asian-American would be.)
Neither will it be a popular one that will accrue to the benefit of his party, in my view. His supporters in academia and the press have an inkling of this which is why they are trying to tar and silence critics of this move right from the start. But Clyburn’s demand will make their usual tactics harder to succeed.
The Background
The Daily Mail reports how Clyburn strongarmed Biden, who was doing poorly in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries and was desperate for a win in South Carolina. Clyburn said he’d endorse him only if Biden would publicly pledge to place a black woman on the court if there were an opening during his term as president.
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“Too often, Republicans have lacked the spine to call the Democrats out on their racialist policies. This time, Congressman Clyburn has made the job easier by demanding and getting the president to make the party’s racism blatantly explicit. Biden’s defenders have such an absurdly weak case, they humiliate themselves in the effort.”
Democrats being democrats in the open.
I’m not really comfortable with replacing a White male justice with a black female justice. One in nine seems like a good fit for blacks, as they’re about 13 % of the population. I know they’d bitch if Clarence Thomas’ replacement were White. So, we can let you have female, but the black thing is out. It just feels like a step backward for the White Community.
Democrats being democrats in the open.
A minority may or may not throw some meat to the base in terms of rhetoric and token opposition.
Republicans being Republicans.
Isn’t a two party system wonderful?
With Robert Byrd gone, Biden’s pick is ‘safe.’ /s
I’m not really comfortable with replacing a White male justice with a black female justice. One in nine seems like a good fit for blacks, as they’re about 13 % of the population. I know they’d bitch if Clarence Thomas’ replacement were White. So, we can let you have female, but the black thing is out. It just feels like a step backward for the White Community.
I have a dream that our supreme court justices will one day not be judged or chosen by the color of their skin, or by sex, but by the content of their character.
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Will this be a plum for GOP to pluck?
An ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday showed that 76 percent of Americans wanted the president to consider “all possible nominees” while just 23 percent wanted him to only consider Black women for the nomination. ABC.com Jan. 30, 2022
If Clarence Thomas’ replacement were a white liberal, they would welcome it.
I think they would prefer a black liberal, ideally. But a conservative of ANY color, no way.
Amen to that. The libs hold MLK up as a saint, but they do NOT practice what he preached.
Yeah. I was being sarcastic. We can dream, but I think that identity politics are too deeply rooted. We’re probably a gay Asian and a Hispanic trannie away from that coming to an end.
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
Anyone or thing a democrat selects is bad for America.
Sorry I didn’t catch the sarcasm🙂.
One thing I have been wondering about, the democrats seemed to be giving Breyer a subtle but clear hint, “GET OUT!”. What’s the hurry? Will the SC decide the abortion issue this term? If a Justice quits or leaves for whatever reason before cases are decided, what happens? If not Biden, another democrat will nominate someone in the three remaining years.
If a lib leaves, that leaves them short-handed on a vote if Roe comes up. They don’t want that. Maybe they’re still feeling the burn from RBG croaking on them. Or McConnnell shelving the Garland nomination. Or both. If the filibuster is secure, they’re walking a tightrope. And then there’s Biden’s competence. I wouldn’t wanna hang my hat on that.
I totally agree, that’s where I was going with it. I misunderstood it, thinking they wanted him out now…
Thank you for your proper treatment of the words White and black.
I was being sarcastic.
Yes, sorry, I was being sarcastic too.
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