Donna Brazile says 'it's a historic day' because Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated for SCOTUS based on race and sex [audio]

Sarah D | 12:01 PM on March 21, 2022

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown are underway, and they’re off to a hell of a start!

“These baseless charges are unfair,” Durbin says of GOP charges that Judge Jackson is “soft on crime.” He adds Hawley accusations on her approach to sex offenders “fly in the face” of GOP vows to keep the proceedings civil. pic.twitter.com/qOrpUlcboC

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 21, 2022

For what it’s worth, the illustrious Donna Brazile is positively gushing over Jackson and sees this as a truly historic day:

"It's a #historic day because elections have consequences and Biden promised to put a black woman on #SCOTUS." – @DonnaBrazile #BlackWomenAreSupreme pic.twitter.com/uIdWouBxxP

— NAACP (@NAACP) March 21, 2022

Transcript:

“When then-candidate Joe Biden promised to put a black woman on the Supreme Court, back in 2020, we heard him and we began to organize. Not just to put a woman on his formal ticket, which turned out to be Kamala Harris, but a black woman on the Supreme Court. We know that Ketanji Brown Jackson is extremely qualified.”

Actually, Donna, we’d say the last sentence there is completely undercut by everything you said before it. We don’t know that Ketanji Brown Jackson is extremely qualified, because Joe Biden promised to nominate a Supreme Court justice based solely on the qualifications of being a black woman.

Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the greatest, most brilliant jurist the United States has ever seen, but none of that matters because ultimately, she will have been nominated as nothing more than a diversity hire.