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Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker said the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action – and predicted President Biden‘s pick “will probably not get a single Republican vote.”
Biden has vowed to honor his campaign pledge and nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
“The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota,” Wicker said during an interview with host Paul Gallo on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio, according to the Mississippi Free Press.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., center, accompanied by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The Supreme Court Monday agreed to take up affirmative action cases involving college admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASES AGAINST HARVARD, UNC, FOR ALLEGED ADMISSIONS DISCRIMINATION
Biden has not yet announced his choice for the high court, but said he plans to do so at the end of February.
The White House pushed back on Wicker’s comments Saturday, noting that both former President Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump both had pledged to nominate women to the Supreme Court, while urging Wicker to have an open mind on Biden’s yet-to-be-named pick.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates noted that Wicker lauded Trump’s choice of Amy Coney Barrett as an inspiration to young women. White women have historically benefited the most from affirmative action, studies suggest.
“President Biden has established one of the strongest track records ever when it comes to choosing extraordinarily qualified and groundbreaking nominees – as the American Bar Association ratings for his 42 confirmed nominees demonstrate,” Bates…
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