Analysis: Attention to Biden’s earlier pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court increases
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a seat now open on the highest bench in the land, concern about who will fill it is likely to become a central focus of the 2020 election.Already, there is renewed interest in Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s pledge earlier this year to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court if he wins the November election.
“We talked about the Supreme Court — I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented,” he said during a debate among Democratic candidates in February., “We are putting together a list of African American women who are qualified and have the experience to be on the court. I am not going to release that until we go further down the line in vetting them as well.
In recent months, Trump has leaned into stoking fears among the White voters who supported him in 2016 about what America could look like under a Biden presidency. His recent claims that the former vice president will destroy suburbia by making it more ethnically and socioeconomically diverse were rooted in a campaign appealing to the grievances of White Americans uncomfortable with an increasingly diversifying country.
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