Dick Durbin Defends Biden's Plan to Name Black Woman to High Court
WASHINGTON—The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee defended President Biden’s plan to pick a Black woman to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created with the coming resignation of Justice Stephen Breyer, saying that it was consistent with actions by past presidents who made demographic factors part of the selection criteria.
“This is not the first time that a president has signaled what they’re looking for in a nominee,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), who as the committee leader will have a leading role in the Senate confirmation process, told ABC’s “This Week.”
He said of the potential African-American women nominees: “If they have achieved the level of success in the practice of law and jurisprudence, they’ve done it against great odds.” All potential nominees, he said, would “face the same close scrutiny.”
Mr. Biden’s campaign-trail pledge to make a nomination in part based on gender and race is drawing questions from the public and across the aisle, with some Republicans questioning whether the action is further injecting politics into a system that is designed to uphold the rule of law. In an ABC/Ipsos poll released Sunday, 76% of Americans said Mr. Biden should “consider all possible nominees” rather than “consider only nominees who are Black women, as he has pledged to do.”
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