Joe Biden: Against a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
2nd February 2022
When Joe Biden still had sufficient mental competency to merely be “Slow Joe” Biden, he and his Senate Democrat cohorts helped torpedo the Supreme Court future of a black woman. Her name is Janice Rogers Brown, no earthly relation to me, and she was finally confirmed from the California Supreme Court to be a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. Yet, the bitter two-year delaying action kept her from potential consideration for the Supreme Court, and she retired to an academic life.
I remember President George W. Bush nominating this outstanding jurist, with an eye to potential future Supreme Court consideration. I did not know at the time that there was talk of turning to her, a California Supreme Court justice, when Bush’s attempt to get his Texas crony, Harriet Miers, on the court was crushed by real conservatives. He took the easier route, although not one of his first choosing, of nominating Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. Brown persisted, not withdrawing her nomination in the face of Biden and his gang’s obstruction.