We don’t even know the woman’s name yet.
In fact, we don’t know much of anything about her except that she is Black. That’s not a lot, but it’s more than enough for some people.
Ever since last week, when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, and President Biden said he would keep a campaign promise to nominate an African-American woman to the court, Republicans have stumbled all over themselves to decry this terrible thing.
Like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who said on his podcast: “Black women are what, 6 percent of the U.S. population? Biden is saying to 94 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible’.”
Yeeeah, but no. By that “logic” (if you want to call it that) no one could be a Supreme Court justice. White men, after all, are just 30 percent of the population; if Biden made a group of them his de facto favorites, would that not tell 70 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible”?