{"id":1424948,"date":"2022-04-08T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424948"},"modified":"2022-04-08T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:29:48","slug":"remembering-judge-janice-rogers-brown-the-black-woman-biden-blocked-from-the-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remembering-judge-janice-rogers-brown-the-black-woman-biden-blocked-from-the-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Judge Janice Rogers Brown, the Black Woman Biden Blocked From the SCOTUS"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fremembering-judge-janice-rogers-brown-the-black-woman-biden-blocked-from-the-scotus%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=1424948&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>President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination. <\/p>\n<p>The story begins in 2003, when Bush\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/wbna3339781\" target=\"_blank\">nominated<\/a>\u00a0Judge Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The D.C. Circuit is considered the country\u2019s second-most important court, and has produced\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Why-the-D.C.-Circuit-Matters1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more Supreme Court justices<\/a>\u00a0than any other federal court. Brown was immediately hailed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. She was highly qualified, having served for seven years as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court \u2014 the first Black woman to do so. She was the daughter and granddaughter of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4655615\" target=\"_blank\">sharecroppers<\/a>, and grew up in rural Alabama during the dark days of segregation, when her family\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/01\/AR2005070100756.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\">refused<\/a>\u00a0to enter restaurants or theaters with separate entrances for Black customers. She rose from poverty and put herself through college and UCLA law school as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/09\/politics\/new-judge-sees-slavery-in-liberalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">a working single mother<\/a>. She was a self-made African American legal star. But she was an outspoken conservative \u2014 so Biden set out to destroy her.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his fellow Democrats filibustered her nomination, along with several other Bush circuit court nominees, all of whom had majority support in the Senate. Columnist Robert Novak\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/02\/27\/column.novak.opinion.kennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a>\u00a0it \u201cthe first full-scale effort in American history to prevent a president from picking the federal judges he wants.\u201d Democrats argued that she was out of the legal mainstream, but Republicans responded that she had written more\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/hatch_statement_10_22_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">majority opinions<\/a>\u00a0than any other justice on the California Supreme Court \u2014 and she was reelected with 76 percent of the vote, the highest percentage of all the justices on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>When Democrats derailed her nomination, Bush renominated her in 2005. Brown was eventually\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/09\/politics\/new-judge-sees-slavery-in-liberalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0by a vote of 56 to 43 \u2014 after Democrats released her and several other Bush nominees in exchange for Republican agreement not to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominations. Biden\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CRECB-2005-pt9\/html\/CRECB-2005-pt9-Pg11835-2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">voted<\/a>\u00a0a second time against her nomination. He never explained why, if Brown was so radical, Democrats let her through but killed 10 other Bush nominees. <\/p>\n<p>The following month, when Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor announced her retirement, Brown was on Bush\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/01\/AR2005070100756.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_11\">shortlist<\/a>\u00a0to replace her. She would have been the first Black woman ever nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But Biden appeared on CBS\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/face_070305.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cFace the Nation\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to warn that if Bush nominated Brown, she would face a filibuster. \u201cI can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight and she probably would be filibustered,\u201d Biden said. Asked by moderator John Roberts \u201cWasn\u2019t she just confirmed?,\u201d Biden replied that the Supreme Court is a \u201ctotally different ballgame\u201d because \u201ca circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don\u2019t get to make new law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Biden threatened was unprecedented. There has never been a successful filibuster of a nominee for associate justice in the history of the republic. Biden wanted to make a Black woman the first in history to have her nomination killed by filibuster. Bush eventually nominated Samuel A. Alito Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Biden calls the filibuster a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/25\/politics\/filibuster-biden-obama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201crelic of the Jim Crow era.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0But he threatened to use that relic as a tool to keep a Black woman who actually lived under Jim Crow off the highest court in the land. The irony is that now he wants to get rid of the filibuster, and claim credit for putting the first Black woman on the court.<\/p>\n<p>There were many conservatives on Bush\u2019s shortlist whose legal philosophy Biden opposed. But Biden only promised to filibuster the one Black woman. Why? Perhaps a clue lies in another confirmation fight that Biden helped wage. In 2001, Democrats blocked the nomination of Miguel Estrada to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. According to internal strategy memos obtained by the Wall Street Journal, they targeted Estrada at the request of liberal interest groups who said Estrada was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB106877910996248300\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cespecially dangerous\u201d<\/a>\u00a0because \u201che is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.\u201d They did not want Republicans to put the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. So, Biden and his fellow Democrats killed Estrada\u2019s nomination \u2014\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/04\/estrada.withdraws\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first appeals court nominee in history to be successfully filibustered<\/a>. It paid off when President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 commitment to diversity is a ruse. Biden was willing to destroy the careers of an accomplished Latino lawyer and a respected Black female judge, and stop Republicans from putting either on the Supreme Court. For Democrats, it\u2019s all about identity politics. Indeed, Biden might not have become president had he not made the pledge to nominate a Black woman. That promise helped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/biden-supreme-court-black-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secure<\/a>\u00a0the endorsement of Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) \u2014 which won Biden the South Carolina primary and rescued his faltering campaign.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Biden tries to bask in the glory of his historic nomination, remember Janice Rogers Brown \u2014 the Black woman who does not sit on the Supreme Court today because of Biden\u2019s disgraceful obstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1424948","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\/1424948","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424948\/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=1424948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}