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The First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice
There is a Supreme Court opening and President Joe Biden has promised that the person he supports will be female and black.
I agree with the sentiment expressed by Clay Travis in the above tweet and coincidentally, so do most Americans.
I am not surprised by those poll numbers. I have said on a number of occasions that while racism exists in America, we are not a racist country. But, I digress. On the left, people are already gearing up to silence 76% of Americans by calling anyone who opposes Biden’s racial prioritizing as racist. (Wow! Who saw that accusation coming? #sarcasm) Here is a quote from USA Today columnist – Sophia Nelson.
The protestations and recriminations of the whole white male GOP establishment – the Tucker Carlson/Fox News echo chamber – that somehow this historic nominee will not be “qualified” is utterly ridiculous. Let me be more direct: From 1779 to 1967, all of the Supreme Court Justices were white men. Full stop. Men of means. Men of politics. Men of wealth. Men who, in some instances, owned slaves, voted to create and uphold racial segregation (Dred Scott, Plessy vs. Ferguson), or most odious of all, were open racists and members of the KKK (Justice Hugo Black). So please spare me and the rest of us your garbage talk about how concerned you are about qualifications and ethics, and on and on. There is no such “concern” when the nominees are white men.
Well, that’s quite a provocative statement and would certainly cause an overwhelming amount of white guilt on the masses unfamiliar with history. I suspect such an attack and the others to follow are not taking into account Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
Who is that? You may ask. I wondered it myself when I saw this tweet.
Okay, wait a second is that true? In a word, yes. Check out this quote from Newsweek.
As Laura Ingraham noted on the Wednesday edition of her Fox News show, then-Senator Biden opposed and then filibustered the nomination of Brown to the federal bench in 2003 and 2005.
Then-President George W. Bush had nominated Brown both times for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but many Democrats tried to block her from the position for her perceived libertarian views.
Brown was born to Alabama sharecroppers and grew up in the segregated South. During her college years, Brown was a single mother with views so left-wing that she later said they were almost Maoist.
Her views grew decidedly more conservative over the years, and she has defended using electric stun guns on criminals who act inappropriately in courtrooms. Brown also wrote opinions that opposed affirmative action and supported a state law that required girls younger than 18 to notify their parents before getting an abortion.
Okay, so I am prone to go down rabbit holes once I become fascinated with something and this was no exception. Just for giggles, I looked up the voting records concerning the nomination of Judge Janice Brown back in the day. Guess who also voted against (potentially) the first black woman supreme court justice? Barack Obama. Click here to see how the vote went down in 2003 and click here to see how the vote went down in 2005. And while you are at it, take note of other names on the list (ie. Chuck Schumer) and keep it as a source of amusement. Why? I predict several of the people on the list will be among those pointing out the racism in others for opposing Biden’s pick.
Now, were the Democrats being racists when they opposed Judge Brown’s nomination? I don’t think so. I think it was purely ideological. Case in point, President Obama had this to say about it.
Unfortunately, as has been stated repeatedly on this floor, in almost every legal decision that she has made and every political speech that she has given, Justice Brown has shown she is not simply a judge with very strong political views, she is a political activist who happens to be a judge.
It was purely politics back then. But today, saying EXACTLY the same words about a Biden appointee today will most assuredly be labeled racist and grounds for cancellation from polite society. Guaranteed.
Sigh.
I can’t help but wonder how things might have been if Judge Janice Rogers Brown had become the first black woman supreme court justice. Not because of her skin color or gender but because of the character of a person who said things like this.
