Biden's vow to pick Black woman for US Supreme Court draws Republican fire
Biden's vow to pick Black woman for US Supreme Court draws Republican fire
- February 12, 2022
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, Deccan Herald (AFP), Feb. 12, 2022
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US President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court is coming under fire from Republicans even before he unveils his pick, a sign of a potentially testy Senate confirmation battle to come. … Michael Tesler, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine, said the negative reaction to Biden's pledge illustrates the growing divide between Republicans and Democrats over the question of racism in the United States. "This is yet another reminder of the remarkable shift partisans' racial attitudes have undergone in the past decade," Tesler said in an article on FiveThirtyEight.com.
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