David A. Love | Mar 4, 2022
There is a saying that when you’re Black, you must work twice as hard to get half the credit. This is most certainly true, and the predictable yet outrageous white conservative attacks on Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, is a case in point. Judge Brown Jackson is more qualified than most of the white men who have served on the Supreme Court.
Qasim Rashid, a former Congressional candidate in Virginia, made the case on TikTok that “Judge Jackson is extremely qualified. But dozens of justices before her weren’t. Here’s the history most don’t know.” Out of 115 Supreme Court justices in U.S. history, Rashid noted, 40 had no prior judicial experience, 18 attended some law school but never received a law degree, and 47 received legal education without attending law school. And let’s not forget the Supreme Court justice who was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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