Why is Sen. Roger Wicker OK if a president promises to nominate a woman, but he's not OK when a president promises to nominate a Black woman?
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today February 6, 2022 Roger Wicker, Mississippi’s senior U.S. senator, made national headlines last week when he criticized President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate an African American woman to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. During a recent interview on Mississippi’s statewide conservative radio network, Wicker said the nominee would be “the beneficiary” of a “quota.
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