‘It would be glorious’: hopes high for Biden to nominate first Black woman to supreme court Tom McCarthy © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images
Joe Biden’s promise to nominate an African American woman to the supreme court for the first time holds broad symbolic significance for Darlene McDonald, an activist and police reform commissioner in Salt Lake City, Utah.
But McDonald has specific reasons for wanting a Black woman on the court, too.
When Chief Justice John Roberts asserted in 2013 that federal oversight of voting in certain southern states was no longer needed because “things have changed dramatically” since the civil rights era, McDonald said, he revealed a blindness to something African American women have no choice but to see.
It would be glorious : hopes high for Biden to nominate first Black woman to supreme court
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