Biden vs. Brown

As you know, Joe Biden has promised to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court.  The American people have serious reservations about Biden's "identity politics." 

A new poll from ABC News found that 76% of Americans believe Biden should consider "all possible nominees."  Just 23% support Biden's decision to consider only black women.

This poll reminded me about another black woman nominated to serve on the federal bench, a woman who was terribly mistreated by the American left generally and by Joe Biden specifically. 

In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is widely considered the nation's second most important court and a training ground for future Supreme Court justices. 

At the time, Brown was a justice on the California Supreme Court.  She was known for her conservative judicial opinions against affirmation action and in favor of parental consent for abortion. 

But rather than embrace Brown's appointment to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Democrats were united in opposition.  Democrats, including then-Senators Joe Biden and Barack Obama, repeatedly filibustered Brown's confirmation. 

Yes – filibustered!  The procedure that Biden today calls a relic of the Jim Crow era was used by Biden to destroy a black female nominee. 

President Bush renominated Brown, and she was eventually confirmed in 2005 after a bipartisan agreement.  But Democrats did their best to block her confirmation because the left feared she could have been the first black woman appointed to the Supreme Court, and they did everything they could to destroy her.  Biden voted against her three times.

Had she been confirmed in 2003, the odds are overwhelming that we would have had a black woman on the Supreme Court 17 years ago when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired. 

But the left isn't really concerned about black women.  They want leftists on the Supreme Court who will continue to remake America. 

The most important "qualification" Biden has for his Supreme Court nominee is not merit, skin color or gender.  The most important qualification is that she is committed to the left's agenda, and will ignore the Constitution in order to impose the left's values on America.