13 Senate Democrats voted against Black female judge nominated by Trump
By: Houston Keene (Fox News)
Joe Biden using race and gender as a litmus test for political appointment is nothing more than blatant tokenism. And why the Black community viewing Biden's tokenism as progressive rather than regressive defies rational logic. Biden is engaged in overt, blatant racism.
Joe Biden deliberately dismisses the progress that has been made just to score a cheap political point. The fact that Black women are qualified to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court is clear, unequivocal evidence that race and gender are no longer insurmountable barriers in society. As a society, we've made real, tangible progress.
Of course, Hillary Gingrich (or is that Newt Clinton) grifting on a political controversy lets Biden (and Democrats) off the hook. Joe Biden gets to hide behind the phony facade of political opposition based upon party affiliation. Hillary Gingrich is aiding and abetting Biden's racism, just to make a dollar.
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President Biden pledged this week to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer in an offering to the progressive left.
While Biden's pledge to nominate a Black woman has received support from Democrats who see it as a win for diversity, over a dozen Senate Democrats previously tried to block a Black woman from the federal judiciary when she was nominated by former President Trump.
The Senate Democrats in question all voted against Ada E. Brown, former President Trump's nominee for district judge of the northern district of Texas.
Brown, a Black woman, was confirmed in September 2019 by a vote of 80-13, with the 13 "nay" votes coming from Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer, Tammy Baldwin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown, Maria Cantwell, Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mazie Hirono, Ed Markey, Patty Murray, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow and Ron Wyden.
Only two of the offices for the 13 senators who voted against Brown's confirmation responded to Fox News Digitals' requests for comment.
A spokesperson for Schumer pointed to the senator's Wednesday remarks to reporters in New York, where he said he expected the president to "follow through" on his pledge to nominate a Black woman and said the Senate would "move quickly" on his nominee.
A spokesperson for Cantwell pointed to a tweet by the senator regarding Breyer's retirement and the "opportunity" to diversify the Supreme Court.
"I thank Justice Stephen Breyer for his years of service on the Supreme Court. His opinions in support of the Affordable Care Act and abortion rights have helped Americans access the health care they need," Cantwell tweeted. "This is an opportunity to add diversity to our highest court and I look forward to considering President Biden's nominee."
The president announced on Thursday that he would be making his Supreme Court nomination based on the nominee's race and gender.
"I've made no decision except one: The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court," Biden said. "It's long overdue, in my view."
The announcement has seen bipartisan pushback, with former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii tweeting Friday about "Biden's mistake."
"He should not be choosing a Supreme Court justice based on the color of their skin or sex, but rather on their qualifications [and] commitment to uphold our Constitution [and] the freedoms guaranteed to all Americans in that document which is the foundation of our nation," Gabbard wrote.
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Joe Biden and Hillary Gingrich (or is that Newt Clinton) are pissing away the progress we've made as a society. Overt, blatant racism as a means to a political end isn't progressive. Race and gender are no longer insurmountable barriers in our society. That's real, tangible progress.
C'mon, Nerm. Are you upset that you aren't under consideration?
I am sure that there are many qualified candidates for the SCOTUS in all demographics, so your wailing about Racism, well... it is a bit telling.
Tokenism, from Merriam Webster :
Joe Biden, as a candidate for the presidency said that he would nominate a black woman:
The litmus test will be how many Republican votes the justice candidate receives. I seem to recall a lot of gum-flapping about how the selection of justices was at the President's prerogative and how the Senate was, as a matter of precedence, just there to rubber stamp the deal... Or does it change when your dickhead isn't the one making the choice?
Well, Nerm, they probably see it as progressive because of the other things that Biden has done, and therefore do not see this as an act of tokenism. The fact that you do is, once again, very telling.
I dislike the partisan interests that this country has grown into, but they haven't yet created an alternate reality (that I have access to) where I don't have to listen to D's and R's spittle flying comments about each other and the people come together and listen to each other to solve their collective problems. Shrug.
C'mon, Thomas. Do you not find it sketch that judicial qualification and experience is third or fourth on the list of what makes a qualified candidate?
Oh, and to be clear, appointment to SCOTUS has probably always been sketch. If it were me, I'd have a fishbowl drawing. Concerned parties would not argue over who specifically got appointment but, rather, who's name went into the fishbowl. Let's say a total of six names. Then, draw one. That's the new appointment to the SCOTUS.
Do you or do you not think that there is an extremely qualified person who meets the qualifications that you list?
It all about victimization. They who push for race over merit are demented. As the above article demonstrates, they don't tolerate black women who don't think the correct way.
Show me where "they" are pushing for race over merit? Specifically. With links.
For one who is always playing the victim, it seems odd that you would mention victimization.
The article can't even get the facts straight. To Wit:
To read that sentence makes it sound as if race and gender are the sole qualifications of Bidens choice. But then they quote Biden (emphasis mine):
People make these logical errors over and over again. They cherry pick one or two words and use them as the basis for their arguments, and then get mad when their logic is shown to be false and pointing in the wrong direction from reality.
Did Democrats vote agaiinst the Trump nominee because she was black?
I didnt think so.
This is a ridiculous seed.
Because she was a Black who could think for herself.
And you know it.
Run along now.
The premise of this ridiculous article is that the Democrats are hypocrites because they didnt vote for trumps black nominee, and you know it.
Just like when one of you called Justice Thomas "an uncle Tom" a few days ago.
You don't fool anyone.
Is that the classier version of 'have a nice day'?
Bless his Heart
They might have. Politicians don’t like to see the other party get credit for doing a good thing. It’s a reason why many of our long term problems don’t get solved.
Simply opposing a Black nominee is racist. The press (and Democrats) always paint such opposition as racism. If 13 Republicans oppose Biden's Justice nominee then Rachel Maddow will erupt in a frenzy of racial outrage and label that opposition as extremist racism. And the press will repeat that allegation until it is accepted as fact.
So, yes, the 13 extremist Democrat Senators voted against Ada Brown because she is Black. That's how liberals do politics.
Don't worry Hillary Gingrich (or is that Newt Clinton) will play along.
They torpedoed a DC Circuit nominee because he was latino, so opposing a nominee for being black is definitely something the Democrats would do.
"Brown, a Black woman, was confirmed in September 2019 by a vote of 80-13 ... "
A landslide in today's partisan numbers.
"The president announced on Thursday that he would be making his Supreme Court nomination based on the nominee's race and gender."
The entirely partisan slippery pollywogness of this article is that Biden promised to do just this in 2019 and the wag-hags over at FOX would have jumped all over him for breaking his promise had he not.
And really, Newt the Kool-Aid Gingrich who single-handedly brought about the demise of Conservatism?
Only by the left's standards. But whatever it takes to give the 13 racist morons; and those that abstained from voting, a free pass for the almighty D behind their names.
Since when do Democrats or leftists give a shit about what anyone on Fox says- other than to deride them? If Biden really gave a shit about Fox:
I will take Newt any day of the week over Biden and Democrats who are trying to bring about the demise of the US.
They have not succeeded yet? What a bunch of incompetents; they should take some lessons from Tucker who would lurv to turn the US into a version of Hungary and appears to have a good chance of success.
What political office does Tucker hold again? Please remind us because last I checked he was merely a pundit on Fox News.
Hungary would be a much better alternative to become than China would be. Hungary is a great western free market democracy.
Hungary's democracy is under steady and increasing assault by the autocratic Orban regime, which is why it is beloved by Trumpists and other reactionary extremists. Calling Hungary a "great democracy" is a farce and propagandistic disinformation.
The 13 "nays" portray themselves as progressives but in reality, they are regressives and shameful human specimens. All one needs to do is research their histories. To start off ... Stolen Valor Blumenthal ... and Dumbo Horono who was stupid enough to believe Christine Blasey Ford's hoax.
Biden can't count on ALL Dem Senators voting to confirm...if his choice is a far left wacko.
The could probably get a skirt to look good on Garland, but they will have a problem with the blackface....