The upside-down clown world we’re all forced to live in just became even more outlandish, whacky, and riddled with hypocrisy.
Joe Biden, who has pledged to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court, hoped no one would uncover his Senate record of actively filibustering a black women to the nation’s second-highest court.
Way back in 2003 through 2005, when Joe Biden was still a Democrat senator from Delaware, President George W. Bush nominated Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but due to her conservative views, Joe Biden and the Democrats filibustered her nomination, blocking a final vote on her confirmation.
Bush nominated Brown for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003 after she served as a justice on the California Supreme Court since 1996; she did not get confirmed until June 8, 2005.
Brown was born to Alabama sharecroppers and grew up in the segregated South. During her college years, Brown was a single mother with views so left-wing that she later said they were almost Maoist. As time went on Brown shifted her viewpoint, becoming notably more conservative.
Janice Rogers Brown was reportedly considered as the possible replacement for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, but that ultimately went to Samuel Alito. Beyond Joe Biden, her nomination to the circuit court was also opposed by then-Sen. Barack Obama, who said her political views bar her from being an independent jurist.
“Unfortunately, as has been stated repeatedly on this floor, in almost every legal decision that she has made and every political speech that she has given, Justice Brown has shown she is not simply a judge with very strong political views, she is a political activist who happens to be a judge,” Obama said in 2005.
Brown retired from her position on the circuit court in 2017.
Conservatives have since pointed out the hypocrisy of Biden pledging to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court after working so hard to oppose Brown.
“He voted three times against confirming her just to be a U.S. circuit judge. I mean, this wasn’t even to the Supreme Court. So, race and gender, they only count if you’re thought to be a committed judicial activist, judicial leftist,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said last Wednesday.
For nearly 2 years, Senate Democrats — including Joe Biden — filibustered the nomination of then-California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Circuit.
She likely would have been the first Black female Justice.
Democrats only pretend to care about diversity. pic.twitter.com/SEmzoe09zG
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 28, 2022
Janice Rogers Brown would have been the first black woman on the Supreme Court.
What stopped her?
Joe Biden. Twice.🤷🏾♀️
— Lavern Spicer (@lavern_spicer) January 29, 2022
There’s one African American on the Supreme Court. If Biden had his way he wouldn’t be there. Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, Miguel Estrada.
Look ‘em up – Biden worked his heart out to block them. Horrific record on this. https://t.co/9aP32FUZJM— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 29, 2022
However, according to Joe Biden, if you aren’t a liberal then “you aren’t black.”
Author: Elizabeth Tierney
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