The absurdity of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) calling the long-overdue decision to select a qualified African American woman “racist” is racist, and the nonsense of Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss) saying she would be disqualified from hearing affirmative action or race-balanced cases demonstrates his ignorance of affirmative action, which has been greatly watered down by the Bakke and other Supreme Court cases since Clarence Thomas got into law school almost entirely because of affirmative action.
By Wicker’s silly idiocy, Clarence Thomas should be disqualified based on having benefited from affirmative action instead of being disqualified as he should be, because he lacks the ability, is a sexual predator and lied during his confirmation hearings.
In any case, affirmative action never affected completion of law school; it was only a benefit that used to be considered for ADMISSION to law school, not completion.
And if African Americans could not be fair about affirmative action because of its effects on race, well, European Americans were also affected by it. Therefore, no judge of any race should ever hear such a case, which are largely moot these days anyway.
It is not about quotes or affirmative action. It is about FINALLY including a group whose enormous reservoir of legal talent has been systemically excluded. And since African American women were Biden’s most loyal voting block and got him elected, it clearly makes sense for him to make sure their voices are represented at the highest levels of our legal system.
The absurdity of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) calling the long-overdue decision to select a qualified African American woman “racist” is racist, and the nonsense of Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss) saying she would be disqualified from hearing affirmative action or race-balanced cases demonstrates his ignorance of affirmative action, which has been greatly watered down by the Bakke and other Supreme Court cases since Clarence Thomas got into law school almost entirely because of affirmative action.
By Wicker’s silly idiocy, Clarence Thomas should be disqualified based on having benefited from affirmative action instead of being disqualified as he should be, because he lacks the ability, is a sexual predator and lied during his confirmation hearings.
In any case, affirmative action never affected completion of law school; it was only a benefit that used to be considered for ADMISSION to law school, not completion.
And if African Americans could not be fair about affirmative action because of its effects on race, well, European Americans were also affected by it. Therefore, no judge of any race should ever hear such a case, which are largely moot these days anyway.
It is not about quotes or affirmative action. It is about FINALLY including a group whose enormous reservoir of legal talent has been systemically excluded. And since African American women were Biden’s most loyal voting block and got him elected, it clearly makes sense for him to make sure their voices are represented at the highest levels of our legal system.