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Is it too late to hope for a Black woman on the Supreme Court?
Washington Post ^ | 10/26/2020 | Petula Dvorak

Posted on 10/26/2020 6:33:26 PM PDT by simpson96

These young Black girls should have been celebrating the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Instead, as the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett was well on its way, these girls — all 100 of them — got dressed up in judicial robes to launch a protest.

“Honor Her Wish,” their little masks read.

“Her wish,” of course, was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying request that her seat wouldn’t be filled until after the election. Joe Biden has pledged to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court if he wins in November.

But President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical move to fill Ginsburg’s seat a mere eight days before the election means the 100 Black girls who have never seen a Black woman on the court will see instead a woman who looks nothing like them helping to decide huge issues in their futures.

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To: reg45

If I remember the bizarre requirements correctly, you don’t have to be a lawyer to be on SCOTUS, so she wouldn’t even have to go to law school or be a judge. Candace Owens or ACB’s adopter daughter are both sounding promising!


101 posted on 10/26/2020 7:46:50 PM PDT by SelfhatingMillennial
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To: simpson96

Hey, Petula!

how you doing there, you racist piece of crap.


102 posted on 10/26/2020 7:47:17 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Rummyfan

She’s 71 years old. A good pick but she is getting pretty old.


103 posted on 10/26/2020 7:49:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (With age comes wisdom or well practiced ignorance)
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To: simpson96

Why do people assume that a majority of the Supreme Court would find Constitutional a law making the Court subservient to the Congress by “court packing?”


104 posted on 10/26/2020 7:50:44 PM PDT by anton
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To: Rummyfan
She and Miguel Estrada....

Yes, both of them were very good. And both got bottled up by the Dems because they were conservative minorities.

105 posted on 10/26/2020 8:00:16 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: simpson96

Possibly when Justice Thomas retires.


106 posted on 10/26/2020 8:02:42 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: philippa

She would be excellent.


107 posted on 10/26/2020 8:04:01 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

She and Amy will make the group picture look good. :)


108 posted on 10/26/2020 8:06:15 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: simpson96

Human shields. Abusive to fill little kids with hate.


109 posted on 10/26/2020 8:11:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: simpson96

What has happened to America. To think of the men and women who fought and gave their lives for this!!!!


110 posted on 10/26/2020 8:12:01 PM PDT by Maudeen (Wake up true believers in Christ and VOTE!)
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To: simpson96

Carol Swain! She’s awesome!

(from Wikipedia): Carol Miller Swain is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. A frequent conservative television analyst, she is the author and editor of several books. Her interests include race relations, immigration, representation, evangelical politics, and the United States Constitution.

Don’t see her on Fox too much, but she’s a frequent guest of Lou Dobbs on Fox Business


111 posted on 10/26/2020 8:14:51 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: philippa
How about Janice Rogers Brown?

I would have loved to see her rather then Roberts but she is in her seventies now so it is a bit late.

Gosh, the libs would have had a meltdown, conservative black female Chief Justice?

They would not have known whether to wind their watches or go blind.

112 posted on 10/26/2020 8:18:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: simpson96

113 posted on 10/26/2020 8:36:35 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: simpson96

Trump considered a conservative African American judge for the seat. Maybe she will be nominated when he gets his next appointment? Of course then she won’t be the right kind of black for the liberals.


114 posted on 10/26/2020 8:56:49 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: simpson96

Maybe it could be one of the female Black law clerks that Ginsberg had. Oh that’s right, she didn’t have any in how many years on the Supreme Court.


115 posted on 10/26/2020 10:06:44 PM PDT by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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To: simpson96

Dvorak is a supposed refugee or immigrant from a communist country yet she has brought her Marxism and distain for America with her.

Her fellow women columnists at the Wash. Post including the Marxist,hate-filled Marge Sullivan, something Svrugla and Monnica Hasse, are so full of Marxist crap that there isn’t enough room on the North 40 to hold it all.

I guess having Justice Thomas as the second(?)black Supreme Court justice (nominated by a Republican president), isn’t enough proof that people can be chosen because of their legal skills, experience and adherence to the Constitution instead of the color of their skin and adherence to the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement/extortion gang.

This “Petula” has been staying in the subway of life too long singing “Color My World”. You can take a leftist out of a communist country but you can’t take the communism out of their brainwashed minds.


116 posted on 10/26/2020 11:12:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Chode

LMAO.. looks like it jettisoned a turd at the same time!
(I know it is the tail.. but good thing I wasn’t drinking anything, or I would have had to clean my monitor off ;^) )


117 posted on 10/26/2020 11:52:08 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Joe Biden: "Abraham Lincoln is the most racist president ever.")
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To: simpson96

The perfect solution is this:

Set up a matrix. On one axis is ethnicity, on the other is gender. Each intersection represents a single court seat. Obviously there will be hundreds of possible combinations, so that once President Harris is in office, the packing can begin.

Fairness and social justice demands this.


118 posted on 10/27/2020 2:16:42 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (When seconds count, social workers are days away.)
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To: calenel

Meant as an example.

Then again, how are Sotomayor or Kagan “qualified”?


119 posted on 10/27/2020 5:27:19 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Ghislane Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself")
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To: Nateman

>>America already has a black man on the Court who just happens to be one of the best judges EVER. Why not be happy with that?<<

Latinos and blacks are properly represented on SCOTUS as each group is about 12% of the general population and have 11% (1/9) of SCOTUS.


120 posted on 10/27/2020 6:06:21 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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