AND THE AWARD FOR THE STUPIDEST PERSON OF THE WEEK GOES TO...

 

Trumpublican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana who suggested that President Biden's Black female SCOTUS pick won't know "A law book from a J. Crew Catalog."

As The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote on Wednesday: “These attacks are meant to reiterate the narrative that liberals elevate unqualified Black Americans at the expense of others who are truly deserving, as part of a larger backlash narrative, one that echoes past eras in American history, in which advocacy for equal rights is turning white conservatives into an oppressed class. 

Republicans will likely be unable to block the nominee, but they can extract a political price, motivate their own voters, and dull the historic significance of Biden’s choice by orienting the political conversation around the idea that another shiftless Negro is getting free stuff at others’ expense.”

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Just for clarity, and to highlight Sen. Kennedy's disgusting ignorance and racism, here are some of the qualifications of a few of the women President Biden is considering for the SCOTUS:

Ketanji Brown Jackson: After graduating from high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude.  Jackson spent a year as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine, then attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude. 

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. 

She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000. Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. --Wikipedia

J. Michelle Childs: Childs was inspired to pursue a legal career after participating in a mock trial program at the University of South Florida. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management, cum laude, in 1988 from the University of South Florida and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1991. 

Childs also earned a Master of Arts degree in personnel and employment relations from the University of South Carolina School of Business in 1991. She received her L.L.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law in 2016. 

In 2006, she was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly to become Richland County Circuit Court Judge based in Columbia.[7] During her time as a state judge, she helmed a special business court pilot program and became chief judge for General Sessions, South Carolina's criminal court. --Wikipedia

Leondra Kruger:  Kruger is an American judge who is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California and who attended Polytechnic School, a private day school, in Pasadena, California. She then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal, and was the first Black woman elected to the position.  

Kruger worked as an associate at the Jenner & Block law firm from 2001 until 2002. She then worked as a law clerk for Judge David Tatel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 until 2003. Kruger then clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court from 2003 until 2004.