The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Black Woman on the Supreme Court
9th April 2022
Watching the “historic” ceremony for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson I could not help recall the woman who should have been the first black woman on the Supreme Court – Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
Unfortunately, Judge Brown’s nomination was scuttled by then-Senator Joe Biden (FJB).
It took a two-year fight to get her approved to the DC Court of Appeals. Then in 2005, when Justice O’Conner retired, Senator Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.
April 9th, 2022 at 18:32
Good freaking point.