Black Female Supreme Court Nominee Won't Save Biden, Democrats
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By Paul du Quenoy
Wednesday, 02 February 2022 10:35 AM
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The sudden announcement that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire now, while President Joe Biden can appoint a successor before the near-certain Republican takeovers of both houses of Congress in the 2022 midterms, is filling liberals with rare hope after Biden's disastrous first year in office.
The entire mainstream media, and even some conservative outlets, are swooning in the belief that successful confirmation of a new justice, whom Biden has reaffirmed will be a Black woman, will turn things around and put a badly needed end to his string of colossal failures.
This proposition is absurd.
Supreme Court appointments are a presidential prerogative and basic feature of our constitutional system. No judicial appointment has ever turned around a floundering presidential administration, nor is there any reason why this one should.
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