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Angry About Biden’s SCOTUS Preference? You Might Be a Racist
Critics assume a Black woman couldn’t possibly be the most qualified person for the next opening
Tomi Lahren is so painfully basic.
Consider her comments about President Biden’s stated intent to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court — a looming likelihood now that Justice Stephen Breyer has announced his retirement at the end of this term.
To Lahren, Biden’s purposeful desire to place a Black woman on the Court for the first time stems from a need to appease “the radical element and radical, aggressive base of his party.”
Of course.
It couldn’t possibly stem from his belief that there are several candidates who are eminently qualified and also Black women, but whose talent is often overlooked — and thus, he’d like to finally reward that talent.
No, it must be political pandering, unlike Trump doing whatever the Federalist Society wanted him to do.
It must be picking a candidate solely because of race and gender, without regard to qualifications — something Lahren also suggested he did with Kamala Harris, noting, “we see how well that worked out.”
