Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced he will retire and Joe Biden has said he will nominate a black woman for the post. Fox News. Breyer will step down and the end of the current session which ends at the end of summer. Breyer was 83 and there was much speculation that he would retire before the 2022 elections so Biden could replace him with another liberal justice. During his campaign Biden promised to put a black woman on the court, regardless of other concerns.
My Comment:
I am not surprised that Breyer is retiring. I am guessing he learned something from Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death. Ginsberg died near the end of President Trump's last term and was famously replaced by a conservative. I doubt Breyer wanted the same thing to happen to him after the 2022 election when the Republicans look good to take back both the house and senate. Him retiring makes sense from his point of view.
What is disturbing is that Biden will replace him, supposedly with a black women. This is pure racism without a doubt. Instead of evaluating candidates based on their qualifications Biden will be picking someone based on their gender and the color of their skin. That kind of affirmative action is how we get Kamala Harris as Vice President... I would have nothing wrong with a black female candidate but only if they are the best person for the job. But that is NOT what Biden is doing here.
It will be difficult to find a qualified candidate to replace Breyer. There aren't that many black women in this country, they make up only 6% of the population. There are a few that are judges but how many of them are good at their job? I am sure there are some of them out there.
But I am also sure that Biden won't pick one. We won't get a female version of Clarence Thomas. Instead we will get a black Sonia Sotomayor. She's the other diversity hire on the court and she has not impressed me. Her comments on the recent vaccine mandate case showed she didn't even have the basic grasp of the issues. I am sure that whoever Biden's picks it will be similar to Sotomayor.
I have heard that Kamala Harris might be the choice. That would solve two problems for Biden. First it would remove Harris from the White House. Harris is even more unpopular than both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, a feat I would otherwise consider impossible, so getting rid of her might help Biden somewhat.
2nd, Harris is endlessly ambitious and I consider her a major threat to Biden and his continued existence. Shipping her off to the Supreme Court would help keep Biden safe and remove an unpredictable possible foe from the board. She would be a terrible choice as a Supreme Court Justice but she was also a terrible choice for Vice President.
I don't know if the Republicans can do much to stop this. It's a 50-50 tie in the Senate so there is very little they can do. I have heard that they can make things miserable for the Democrats by not letting the nominee out of committee but I am not sure if that is true.
If anything does torpedo whoever Biden picks it will be Democrats in the Senate. Both Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have been doing so for Biden's agenda and I could see it happening again, perhaps just out of spite. I don't think either would have any actual objections to Biden's pick but they could leverage the power they have to get concessions from the Biden White House. I do think that if anyone in the Democratic Party would have a problem with hiring a SCOTUS judge based on their race and gender it would be Joe Manchin...
The good news is that even with a terrible hire it won't do too much damage. The court will still be a 5-3-1 split with Roberts being his corrupt self. The only problem is that the new justice could be there for a long time. But it will basically be status quo ante.
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