We don't know whether Biden nominated Jackson to the Circuit Court because of her race, but we definitely know he did so to the Supreme Court, writes TianatheFirst. 'What do we call prejudicial behavior based on race? I think there's a word for that.'
The Senate Judiciary Committee did not accuse Ketanji Brown Jackson of attempting to rape an underage girl. It did not accuse her of being a mere puppet for partisans personally hellbent on depriving millions of people of healthcare via judicial fiat, and it did not accuse her very nomination to the Supreme Court of being illegitimate.
As anyone who listened to Monday's proceeding heard approximately a hundred times, Jackson would become the first black woman to sit on the nation's highest court if confirmed by the deadlocked Senate. And assuming Jackson does get confirmed, it will be because Republicans denied her the same racist treatment Democrats, Biden and current Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin included, gave to Miguel Estrada two decades ago.
Biden, then a senator from Delaware, was not one of them, nor was Durbin. A leaked memo to the senator from his staff indicates pretty clearly why. When faced with a brilliant and promising lawyer of color, not one Democrat joined Republicans in voting Estrada's nomination out of committee, and Durbin and Biden helped kill his confirmation to the circuit court, an obvious springboard to the Supreme Court.
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