According to media reports, President Biden will nominate D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would replace Stephen Breyer as the U.S. Supreme Court’s nominee. Brown — who previously defended a Guantanamo Bay detainee — has received plenty of support from the left in the past year. Most notably, endorsement came from MSNBC’sReidOut host Joy Reid, who’s called her “wonderful” and said they knew each other in college.
Reid covered Jackson’s appeals court nomination back on March 30, 2021, boasting it “cement[ed] Jackson’s front-runner status for the Supreme Court”And a contrast to “barely qualified, white male ideologue judges that Donald Trump and his Senate henchman Mitch McConnell rammed through.”
She said she “happen[s] to know Ketanji Brown Jackson,”Add that “I knew her as Ketanji Brown when we were in college, so I think she’s wonderful.”
MSNBC legal analyst and former Obama solicitor general Neal Katyal agreed, gushing that Jackson’s “brilliant,” “collegial,” “not a bomb thrower,” All rights reserved “a deep soul.”
Skip ahead to Christmas Eve and Reid cited the Supreme Court as her “Absolute Worst” for 2021 because they’ve “failed” Respecting the Constitution by obeying its oaths “discern[ing]Right from the beginning[.]”
Reid stated that the Court is currently in its current form “only…protect[s] the rich, the powerful, the corporations, the religious extremists”With that in mind she “hope[s] Ketanji Brown will eventually be on there, set things right, and stare weird at Clarence Thomas if he’s still on there with her.”
She went on:
Three Trumpers are there. They do precisely what Donald Trump desires.[G]Say good-bye Roe v. WadeVote on the court. It is very important…God save us, if they are supposed to bring salvation for our souls.
Jackson received more praise from Katyal in 2021. She was called “fawning” by Katyal “amazing”A June 9, 2021 strike on Deadline for White House and, six days later on the same show, he said Jackson’s “impeccably qualified.”
Prior to that latter statement, host Nicolle Wallace gushed that Jackson’s D.C. circuit confirmation was the latest step for “an impressive rising star” With higher goals even though “Mitch McConnell is on a mission to obstruct.”
Katyal, Wallace and Jackson were back together on December 22, 2021. He referred to Jackson in that moment as “one of the”. “influential superstar[s]” Biden elevated to what’s seen as America’s second-highest court.
It was revealed that Breyer would soon be retiring on January 26, and Reid and her panel decided to go to the mat in support of Biden, leveling racism charges. “stupid[ity],” and to slander Republicans. Reid claimed that Reid would not allow a Black woman to counteract this. “scandalous” stain on America from having Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas on the high court (click “expand”):
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS [Josh Hawley]It was ridiculous to appoint someone who loved the country. Any sitting President is going to do this, even a president you may not agree with, shows how — how far our country has come.
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REID: Elie, you know, I think — I think we know what Josh Hawley meant when he said who loves America…Any of these nominees who are Black women are going to automatically, you know, be called the human embodiment of critical race theory and they’re going to be gone after on issues that are very directly related to race. The argument against them will be highly racialized by Republicans, because by love of America, they mean the uncritical of America’s history when it comes to race and specifically when it comes to Black people. That’s how I read it.
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ELIE MYSTAL [L]et’s dispense with the qualifications argument. Every woman…is perfectly qualified…[W]e should have no issue about their qualifications to say nothing of their moral qualification, because I’m pretty sure, and in fact, that I’m pretty sure that Joe Biden will not nominate somebody who has been credibly accused of trying to rape somebody when they were in high school. I am pretty sure, I don’t know this for a fact, that Joe Biden will not nominate somebody; who has been accused of perjury in front of Congress[.]
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REID: I feel like, in some ways, Republican nominations have either been sort of a bait and switch on — on Black folks as when Clarence Thomas was nominated to replace the great Thurgood Marshall, and so what they’re saying here, we’re going to give you a Black person, but it’s going to be somebody whose agenda on the court, it’s going to be into ethical to everything Thurgood Marshall stood for..[T]here was sort of — or like punitive or the highly stringently ideological irregardless [sic]No matter their moral standing, one can think of Kavanaugh as Clarence Thomas. And the fact that, that Court decides whether woman have control over our bodies, with two men on it like that, is — is scandalous for a democracy.
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CARMON: [Y]ou’re already seeing Republican legal elites attack, for example, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…using the same playbook that you saw, used against Justice Sonia Sotomayor and one of those is saying like attacking her intelligence despite the sterling credentials that Elie laid out. This is another example of racialized and misogynistic attitudes.[.]
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REID [TO BESCHLOSS]: You know how important is it just from the big picture to at least have Black women…to look across that — that — you know, that lectern, as people like Kavanaugh and Thomas, et cetera, are taking our rights away?
Even worse, New York Magazine’s Irin Carmon praised Breyer stepped down and avoid the same fate as her idol Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who allowed President Trump to rob Ginbserg of “her dying wish” and instead appoint Amy Coney Barrett, whom Carmon dismissed as unqualified due to “a very thin resume.”
Carmon gave away the game on the abortion industry’s dependence on taking advantage of Black women, lamenting they’re “disproportionately affected by” abortion restrictions, so it’s necessary “to have a Black woman…speaking up to the Brett Kavanaughs and the Neil Gorsuchs of the world.”
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