“This is tremendously exciting news. It is something that the NAACP has been calling for. We need Black women at every level of the judiciary, and especially on the highest court of the land,” NAACP general counsel Janette McCarthy Wallace said.
On Jan. 27, President Biden made history by announcing that he would nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court by the end of February.
“African American women have historically operated under the disabilities of being women and Black, particularly during times when those groups had less power,” Annette Gordon-Reed, a Harvard law professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, told Yahoo News. “To fight through, that has often required great resilience and creativity.”
The Supreme Court in 1988, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the sole female justice. Front row, left to right: Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Byron White, Harry Blackmun. Back row, left to right: Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy.
Many Black lawmakers agree with Wallace, and on Thursday, 14 Black female members of Congress penned a letter to Biden hailing the president’s move to nominate a Black woman while urging the administration to choose its nominee wisely.
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