So here's the article:
www.cnn.com
And here's the relevant rant from Cruz:
Much as I hate Ted Cruz, he does have a point, albeit his is slightly wrong.
First off, it's not that Biden is telling 94% of Americans that he doesn't give a damn about them. The actual fact of the matter is that it's discriminatory.
Yes, Ronald Reagan did something similar when he famously said that if he got the chance he'd put a woman on the SCOTUS. And he did exactly that. That wasn't right either.
A president can nominate whoever the president wants to nominate, but what both Reagan and now Biden have done is blatantly discriminate to make political points. The decision for a life appointment to the court shouldn't be just to score political points and keep political promises. It not only cheapens the court altogether, but it is against U.S. law.
If a CEO of any company in the land were to say, "I'm going to hire an Asian man to run our new division" he would be sued clear to Mars for blatant discrimination. It is against the law in the United States to not hire someone for a job based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or sexual preference.
And yet our presidents feel free to go out and do it at will.
Biden has played the race game his entire administration. Even democrats across the board have all joined in on it. Nobody is talking about who would be the best person for the job. It's always "an Asian woman should get this job" and "this would be a good opportunity for a transgender" and "now it's time to hire a Native American".
Whatever happened to simply looking at resumes to fill the jobs? You can pick whoever you want. But going out BEFORE the fact and saying, "Anybody who is not a black woman need not apply" is simply beyond the pale.
What's more, whoever he winds up nominating will have to recuse herself from any hearings on:
I can't stand Ted Cruz. He's everything that's wrong with this country, but he does make a decent point for once: what Biden has done is just flat-out wrong. It flies in the face of everything the nation is SUPPOSED to stand for.
Cruz calls Biden's promise to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court 'offensive' and 'insulting'
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called President Joe Biden's commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court "offensive" and said that by doing so the President is telling other Americans "you are ineligible."
And here's the relevant rant from Cruz:
"The fact that he's willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I gotta say that's offensive. You know, you know Black women are what, 6% of the US population? He's saying to 94% of Americans, 'I don't give a damn about you, you are ineligible'," Cruz said on an episode of his podcast "Verdict with Ted Cruz" that was released on Sunday. In 2019, Black women represented 7% of the US population, according to the US Census Bureau.
The Republican continued, "And he's also saying -- it's actually an insult to Black women. If he came and said, 'I'm gonna put the best jurist on the court and he looked at a number of people and he ended up nominating a Black woman, he could credibly say, 'OK I'm nominating the person who's most qualified.' He's not even pretending to say that he he's saying, 'If you're a White guy, tough luck. If you're a White woman, tough luck. You don't qualify.'"
Much as I hate Ted Cruz, he does have a point, albeit his is slightly wrong.
First off, it's not that Biden is telling 94% of Americans that he doesn't give a damn about them. The actual fact of the matter is that it's discriminatory.
Yes, Ronald Reagan did something similar when he famously said that if he got the chance he'd put a woman on the SCOTUS. And he did exactly that. That wasn't right either.
A president can nominate whoever the president wants to nominate, but what both Reagan and now Biden have done is blatantly discriminate to make political points. The decision for a life appointment to the court shouldn't be just to score political points and keep political promises. It not only cheapens the court altogether, but it is against U.S. law.
If a CEO of any company in the land were to say, "I'm going to hire an Asian man to run our new division" he would be sued clear to Mars for blatant discrimination. It is against the law in the United States to not hire someone for a job based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or sexual preference.
And yet our presidents feel free to go out and do it at will.
Biden has played the race game his entire administration. Even democrats across the board have all joined in on it. Nobody is talking about who would be the best person for the job. It's always "an Asian woman should get this job" and "this would be a good opportunity for a transgender" and "now it's time to hire a Native American".
Whatever happened to simply looking at resumes to fill the jobs? You can pick whoever you want. But going out BEFORE the fact and saying, "Anybody who is not a black woman need not apply" is simply beyond the pale.
What's more, whoever he winds up nominating will have to recuse herself from any hearings on:
- Discrimination
- Affirmative Action
- Hiring and Firing issues of any kind involving race or sex
I can't stand Ted Cruz. He's everything that's wrong with this country, but he does make a decent point for once: what Biden has done is just flat-out wrong. It flies in the face of everything the nation is SUPPOSED to stand for.
