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Mister Ed

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6. My feeling is that he actually did need to announce it ahead of time.

Reply to PTWB (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:48 PM

Jan 2022

He needed to let people like you (and me) who would like to see a Black woman on the court know that we could count on him to appoint one. Now that he's on the verge of fulfilling that promise, I'm thinking it's much better for him to have declared his intentions in advance than it would have been for him to make a stealth move.

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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