Republicans Warming Up For Rousing Chorus Of ‘A Black Woman, Okay, Just Not This Black Woman’

// Supreme Court Question“I think you’re not going to find Republicans getting in the gutter like the Democrats did with Kavanaugh,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told CNN’s Manu Raju as he exited a lunchtime caucus meeting this afternoon.

“I just think we all don’t want to do the Kavanaugh thing,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham agreed.

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And everyone smiled and nodded like Graham didn’t throw a massive tantrum in the well of the Senate at the suggestion that being credibly accused of attempted rape should impede the installation of a replacement-level White guy on the nation’s highest court.

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More to the point, however, it’s a little late for Republicans to claim to be taking the high road after President Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat and they immediately let their gross, racist flags fly.

Just yesterday Ted Cruz called it “actually an insult to Black women” that Biden would restrict the pool of nominees based on race and gender.

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“You know, Black women are what, 6 percent of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible,’” he sneered on his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls Biden’s commitment to picking a Black woman for the Supreme Court “offensive” and “an insult to Black women.”

“Black women are, what, 6% of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94% of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you.’” pic.twitter.com/SbBfxcaIBN

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Cruz supported Trump’s promise to replace Justice Ginsburg with a female nominee endorsed by the Federalist Society and gushed at Justice Barrett’s confirmation hearing that “Your children have been wonderfully well behaved. I think you’re an amazing role model for little girls. What advice would you give little girls?”

But yesterday he professed himself disgusted that Biden would use any criteria other than pure merit: “He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying, ‘If you’re a White guy, tough luck. If you’re a White woman, tough luck. You don’t qualify.’”

Pity the poor White guys who have only made up 94 percent of Supreme Court justices in history! When will they get a fair shake?

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And Cruz wasn’t the only one showing his whole posterior.

“We’re going to go from a nice, stately left wing liberal to someone who’s probably more in the style of Sonia Sotomayor,” Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker complained Friday to a local radio host.

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“The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota,” he continued, alluding to the Court’s recent decision to take up affirmative action in higher education now that Justices Kennedy and Ginsburg have been replaced with Kavanaugh and Barrett.

“The majority of the court may be saying writ large it’s unconstitutional. We’ll see how that irony works out,” he added, as if the Court would be ruling on the legality of President Biden’s “quota” nominee.

Lest we forget, we still don’t know who this nominee is. But without knowing anything besides her race and gender, Senator Wicker is sure she will be an unseemly, unqualified radical. And while we’re taking this little trip down memory lane, let’s also remember that Wicker had zero problem with Trump’s promise to put a woman in Justice Ginsburg’s seat. And in record time, too.

Maine Senator Susan Collins was a little bit better, but not a lot better.

“I would welcome the appointment of a Black female to the court. I believe that diversity benefits the Supreme Court, but the way that the president has handled this nomination has been clumsy at best,” Collins told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “It adds to the further perception that the court is a political institution like Congress, when it is not supposed to be.”

Merrick Garland might like a word.

Here’s how the senator tried to differentiate between Trump’s promise to immediately fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat with another woman and Biden’s campaign promise to nominate a Black woman:

Actually, this isn’t exactly the same. I’ve looked at what was done in both cases. And what President Biden did was as a candidate, make this pledge. And that helped politicize the entire nomination process. What President Reagan said is, as one of his Supreme Court justices, he would like to appoint a woman. And he appointed a highly qualified one in Sandra Day O’Connor.

See, you can nominate a woman, even a Black woman. But you can’t say you’re nominating a Black woman, because that is playing politics with the Court, and Susan Collins cannot abide such a thing.

Nope, no gutter politics here. This will definitely not descend into a screaming shitshow like the Kavanaugh hearings.

LOL, WHO LIKES BEER?

GOP senator says Black woman Supreme Court pick would be ‘beneficiary’ of affirmative action [CNN]
Biden’s handling of Supreme Court vacancy has been ‘clumsy at best’: Sen. Collins [ABC]
Critics slam Cruz for saying Biden’s vow to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court is ‘offensive’ [WaPo]

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

Topics

SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Susan Collins, Ted Cruz


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