Why Republicans oppose Biden’s promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court

Why Republicans oppose Biden’s promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court
- February 9, 2022
- Michael Tesler, UCI political science professor, explains via FiveThirtyEight
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“Several surveys show that the share of white Democrats who view systemic racism as an impediment to Black progress has skyrocketed in recent years. It’s no surprise, then, that the overwhelming majority of Democrats (82 percent) support “President Biden’s plan to nominate a Black woman to the United States Supreme Court” …. Republicans, meanwhile, have moved in the opposite direction on race. As I wrote in a previous piece for FiveThirtyEight, GOP politics are increasingly animated by the belief that anti-white discrimination is as big of a problem in American society as biases against racial and ethnic minorities.”
For the full story, please visit https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republicans-oppose-bidens-promise-to-nominate-the-first-black-woman-to-the-supreme-court/.
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