{"id":1406863,"date":"2022-03-29T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406863"},"modified":"2022-03-29T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:59:42","slug":"fact-check-was-janice-rogers-brown-the-first-black-woman-nominated-to-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-janice-rogers-brown-the-first-black-woman-nominated-to-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was Janice Rogers Brown The First Black Woman Nominated To The Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-janice-rogers-brown-the-first-black-woman-nominated-to-the-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ruffryder.kazee\/posts\/10101527689196585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Janice Rogers Brown was the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brown was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2003 and 2005. She was never nominated to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court, making her the first black woman to be nominated for the position, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/25\/politics\/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. A post shared on Facebook, however, alleges that distinction actually belongs to Janice Rogers Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The post shows a picture of Brown, along with text that reads, \u201cFRAUD: It was Republicans who nominated the 1st Black woman to the SCOTUS &#038; she was BLOCKED &#038; filibustered by\u2026 wait for it\u2026\u2026Joe Biden. Media: Crickets.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/23\/fact-check-joe-biden-black-people-positions-power-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Joe Biden Say Black People \u2018Should Not Be Allowed To Hold Positions Of Power In Government\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The claim is inaccurate. While Brown was nominated by former President George W. Bush to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2003 and 2005, she was never nominated for the Supreme Court, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-janice-rogers-brown-black-dc-circuit-judge-biden-blocked-appointment-1674175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a>. She does not appear on the Senate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/nominations\/SupremeCourtNominations1789present.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list<\/a> of officially-submitted U.S. Supreme Court nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Biden twice opposed and filibustered Brown\u2019s nomination to the federal circuit court of appeals allegedly over her suspected libertarian views, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-janice-rogers-brown-black-dc-circuit-judge-biden-blocked-appointment-1674175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a> reported. Despite this, she was confirmed by the Senate to the circuit court in 2005, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna8159201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>, and went on to serve on the court until 2017, when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/home.nsf\/Content\/Announcement+-+July102017+PressRelease+JudgeBrown+AnnouncesRetirement\/%24FILE\/JudgeBrownNewsReleaseJuly2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retired<\/a> from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>While Brown was never nominated for the Supreme Court, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/face_070305.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> CBS News\u2019 John Roberts on \u201cFace The Nation\u201d in July 2005 that she \u201cprobably would be filibustered\u201d if she had been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims Janice Rogers Brown was the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.Verdict: False\u00a0 Brown was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}