Let the debate begin now that President Biden has presented us with a historic selection for the U.S. Supreme Court. What will intrigue me for certain are the phony objections that U.S. senators are going to present as they argue against the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the latest justice on the nationās highest court.
The trumped-up objections will come from Republicans in the Senate. They will cling to ridiculous notions that Joe Biden engaged in an āaffirmative actionā hire in selecting Judge Jackson. Why? Because as a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to the court if he got the chance. Justice Stephen Breyer delivered that chance to President Biden when he declared his intention to retire from the court at the end of its current term.
The president vowed to find a stellar jurist. He found her in the person of Ketanji Brown Jackson. There should be no debate over her qualifications.
I want to make the point that I have sought to make for many years when these nominations come forward.Ā Elections have consequences.Ā I have said so when Republican presidents have made these nominations, as well as when Democrats do so. President Bidenās election in 2020 means that he gets the chance to deliver on his constitutional duty, which he has done.
Judge Jackson by all accounts is a first-rate, top-drawer, stellar jurist. She has a well-rounded background in the law, serving as a public defender as well as a prosecutor.
I am not going to listen to those who gripe about President Bidenās decision to look exclusively for a Black woman to fill this important lifetime post. Ronald Reagan made a similar pledge in in 1980, as did Donald Trump in 2020. They both delivered on their pledges and Republicans said not a single thing to object to their commitments.
Whatever phony excuse they come up with now should be greeted with all the derision they deserve.
Ketanji Brown Jackson deserves to take her seat on the nationās highest court ā¦ period.