Posted on Jan 30, 2022
GOP Senator Wicker slammed for racist comment on Biden's plan to pick Black woman for court
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Republican Sen. Roger Wicker drew outrage from the White House, a member of his own party and beyond for a comment that compares President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to affirmative action.
“The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination and while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota,” Wicker, R-Miss., told local radio station SuperTalk Mississippi on Friday. USA TODAY reached out to Wicker's office for a comment.
Republican colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sharply disagreed with that viewpoint, saying he's in favor of "making the court more like America."
"Put me in the camp of making sure the court and other institutions look like America," Graham said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "Affirmative action is picking somebody not as well qualified for past wrongs." He went on to note that one candidate on Biden's list, J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge in South Carolina, is "highly qualified."
Republican Sen. Roger Wicker drew outrage from the White House, a member of his own party and beyond for a comment that compares President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to affirmative action.
“The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination and while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota,” Wicker, R-Miss., told local radio station SuperTalk Mississippi on Friday. USA TODAY reached out to Wicker's office for a comment.
Republican colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sharply disagreed with that viewpoint, saying he's in favor of "making the court more like America."
"Put me in the camp of making sure the court and other institutions look like America," Graham said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "Affirmative action is picking somebody not as well qualified for past wrongs." He went on to note that one candidate on Biden's list, J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge in South Carolina, is "highly qualified."
GOP Senator Wicker slammed for racist comment on Biden's plan to pick Black woman for court
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The GOP was silent when Trump vowed to put a woman (and they knew it was a white woman) in to replace RBG. This is not surprising.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/amy-coney-barrett-emerging-front-runner-fill-ginsburg-s-supreme-n1240547
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/amy-coney-barrett-emerging-front-runner-fill-ginsburg-s-supreme-n1240547
Trump vows to choose a woman to fill Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat
While the timing is fluid, the president said on Saturday that a nominee would be announced "next week."
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republicans, now the party of old white men and middle-aged white housewives who have nothing better to do than point out how racist the rest of us are.
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Our whole govt. is bent, if you believe racism is wrong, then you should be mad at Biden for being a racist.
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CW4 Guy Butler
Fun fact: Of the 115 Supreme Court justices who’ve served, 112 have been white, and 110 have been male.
“Racist” might not be the word you’re going for.
“Racist” might not be the word you’re going for.
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