This prompted Jatia Wrighten, an assistant professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s political science department, to lament that the US is “really not as far along as we would like to think”.
“A lot of the pushback already is ‘Why this focus on race – is this another form of affirmative action?’,” she said, saying such an attitude “highlights a blindspot in American political history” after centuries of white men as the norm on the court. To boot, only five of around 300 federal appellate judges in the US were Black women when Biden became president. He appointed five more in his first year.
Wrighten added: “Pundits and legislators and congressional members were saying things like ‘is this person even going to be qualified?’ This idea that if it’s a Black woman in some way she’s not qualified when in the last days of Trump’s presidency they had the audacity to push through
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