People criticizing Biden for being forthright about his desire to add diversity to the Supreme Court aren’t to be taken seriously, jarvisdeberry writes.
to the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer is being pilloried by the right. But it’s a refreshing departure from presidents who've made race-conscious nominations while asking the public to accept the lie that race never entered their minds.
Biden’s decision to openly talk about the race of his forthcoming nominee suggests that we may be past the “colorblind” nonsense that was all the rage. Bush also wanted the public to forget that less than a year earlier, after he had appointed David Souter to the court, his administration had, as a reporter put it, “very clearly put out the word” that Edith Jones would be his next nominee.
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