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Democrats control the Senate. Get it done. Whiner.This is not 'good news' when you are putting 'diversity' over legal aptitude.
If you are only considering skin color and ethnicity over aptitude, you are essentially putting inept judges in our legal system. You are destroying it.
For the past 10 years, Mitch McConnell has refused to confirm black judges. He has slow walked every non-white, non-male appointment made by President Obama.
When Donald Trump was in office McConnell literally rammed through hundreds of unqualified white male conservative judges who shouldn’t be serving on any bench much less federal appeals courts.
In fact Joe Biden just had his first federal judge confirmed. This was a man that President Obama had appointed to the federal appeals court, and McConnell refused to bring this man’s name up for a vote because he is black. Everyone agreed he was one of the finest candidates for a federal judge on the appeals court ever brought before the Senate, but McConnell would not allow a vote because he is black. Ten Years after Barack Obama nominated this man to the appeals court, Chuck Schumer held a vote and confirmed him
And your first comment on seeing that Biden is trying to address this in balance in the federal courts it to suggest that the women he’s picking are somehow “unqualified”.
I find your assumption that these women are not qualified other than by colour to or sex to be offensive in the extreme.
You had no such concerns about the unqualified white men that Donald Trump was naming to the courts. You didn’t even question their qualifications.
In order for a woman, especially a woman of color, to even make the shortlist of nominations, she would have to be twice as qualified as any of the white men under consideration.