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Celerity

(52,142 posts) Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:17 PM Jan 2022

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Every single SCOTUS justice until Marshall was selected on the basis of race and sex and until [View all]

O'Connor on the basis of sex.

Or are y'all really dumb enough to think that the only folks best qualified were white men?

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Every single SCOTUS justice until Marshall was selected on the basis of race and sex and until [View all] Celerity Jan 2022 OP

Exactly who do they think this is being unfair to? Some white man who should have the job Walleye Jan 2022 #1

Yes they are saying a white male should get the job. Irish_Dem Jan 2022 #2

Yes, white nationalists like Tucker Carlson automatically default (when the person is leftish) Celerity Jan 2022 #5

I strongly support Biden's decision to nominate an African American woman to the court. PTWB Jan 2022 #3

My feeling is that he actually did need to announce it ahead of time. Mister Ed Jan 2022 #6

And it's a total coincidence Thomas replaced a black man and conehead-beret replaced a woman unblock Jan 2022 #4

This might be true but No one has eliminated all other races in print before doing so Groundhawg Jan 2022 #7

Lol. It was understood for hundreds of years that only white men would be appointed. yardwork Jan 2022 #9

"...an exclusionary criteria of race and sex." Like all the white men appointed to the Court? yardwork Jan 2022 #8

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