Vise President Joe Biden hasn’t yet chosen a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, but critics from the left are already making it illegal to speak out against their choices. When Ilya Shapiro, a legal commentator, challenged Mr. Biden’s promise to pick his nominee at the start based on gender and race, he was attacked by other people.
Mr. Biden said he would pick a black woman for the Supreme Court as a way to get the support of a powerful lawmaker named James Clyburn. The gambit worked hard. When Mr. Clyburn said that, Mr. Biden won in the Palmetto State. He then went on to defeat Donald Trump.
He repeated his promise to help black girls this week, and he was criticized by a lot of people for putting politics above qualifications. He was also criticized by us. Mr. Shapiro, a Cato Institute scholar, took to Twitter on Wednesday to share his thoughts with the world as well.
The best choice for Biden would be Sri Srinivasan, because he has a stable program and is very good at it. He even has the advantage of being the first Asian (Indian) American. This person is the Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. As a result, “We’ll get fewer black girls,” Mr. Shapiro said.
As always, the authorized left is having a good time with the race card. Ruth Marcus, a deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post, wrote a column about Biden’s Supreme Court pledge. The headline said that the criticism of Biden’s promise was “traditionally inaccurate and racially tinged.”
In what way is this person’s race mixed up? What do you write when you want to say someone is racist but don’t want to say it? When Mr. Shapiro tweeted this, he was endorsing a person from a different race, even tho he was endorsing an Asian. In addition, he has also apologized for his choice of words. It was still used by Mr. Biden in the criteria he used to choose a judge. Is it bad to talk about using a racial litmus test that a president has made very clear, or is it OK?
The funny thing is that, after she slammed Mr. Shapiro and us, Ms. Marcus agreed with most of our level. Would I have been more comfortable if Biden hadn’t been so clear? Sure, She writes that because it has an air of unfairness to say that no one will be considered who doesn’t meet a racial check, she writes.
Ruth Marcus is the only person who doesn’t like the specific racial check that was used by the judges. It sounds like what she says is that conservatives are right about their criticism, but only liberals can say that.
She and other people have set up Shapiro for possible dismissal from the Georgetown Center for the Structure, where he’s set to be government director soon. That’s not good.
William Treanor, the dean of Georgetown University’s Law Center, said Thursday that he didn’t like what Benjamin Shapiro said on Twitter. As we went to press on Friday, he was thinking about how else to respond to Shapiro.
A letter from Mr. Shapiro to “Dean Treanor and the Georgetown Neighborhood” says he is sorry for “recklessly framed tweets” that don’t help the school’s goal of teaching students, informing the public, and attracting “interest in legal ideas.” The dean should let Mr. Shapiro keep his job.
This whole thing is about who Vise President Biden chooses to join the group of nine justices that he will pick. They can’t say that Biden is picking someone because of their race and then try to scare people away by saying that any criticism of the nominee is racist or “racially tinged.” It doesn’t matter whether the nominee is black, white, Asian, a man or woman, it doesn’t matter. The Court and the public should have a strong debate about the nominee.
In Potomac Watch, Joe Biden says that Stephen Breyer’s alternative standards don’t apply to “the first black girl ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.” Photos: AP/Reuters/The Pool A composite of Mark Kelly.
