Commentary: Gregory Clay — The Supreme Court and precedents
There is precedent.
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There is precedent.
Current GOP critics seem not to have considered the possibility that a Black woman could be extraordinarily well-qualified.
Fact check: Many presidents have explicitly prioritized race, gender and ethnicity in choosing a justice.
President Donald Trump vowed to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court before appointing Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020, for example.
Every day since President Joe Biden reiterated his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, conservatives have reacted with the most predictable jeers and complaints. We've heard all these tiresome whines so many times before. But for some strange reason, the right-wing wo