Posted on 02/11/2022 8:36:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden has reportedly narrowed down his search for his Supreme Court nominee down to four potential candidates.
“What I’ve done is I’ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on them, meaning these thorough background checks, and see if there’s anything in the background that would make them not qualified,” Biden told NBC news anchor Lester Holt in a recent interview.
It’s not said who these four candidates are, but among those reportedly under consideration are U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs; Ketanji Brown Jackson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger; U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina Wright from Minnesota; New York University law professor Melissa Murray; and U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Georgia Leslie Abrams Gardner, who happens to be Stacey Abrams’ sister.
Judge Wilhelmina Wright is the potential candidate I’m about to object to.
Why? Because the Obama-nominated Wright gave arsonist Montez Terriel Lee Jr. of Rochester, Minn., who was responsible for a fire that killed a father of five, a sentence half of what he should have been given.
Why did Wright reduce Lee’s sentence by half? Because Mr. Lee’s criminal act was done during the George Floyd riots of 2020, and he acted in the name of Black Lives Matter.
Would this be disqualifying to Joe Biden? Trust me. It won’t. Why? Because his administration recommended Lee get a lesser sentence to begin with. According to a memo from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota, even though Lee “committed a crime that cost a man his life,” his motives for committing the crime justified a reduced sentence.
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He already said he would. he's not going to go back on his word. The price he'd pay would be too high.
He'll nominate a black woman and she'll get confirmed without a single Republican vote. Sinema and Manchin won't oppose.
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