'It was a bold and transformational move. And it just goes to show that good things can sometimes result from cold political calculation,' writes columnist markzbarabak.
The circumstances were similar in 1980, when Ronald Reagan pledged to name the court’s first female justice.“It is time for a woman to sit among the highest jurists,” Reagan said, as he worked to close a gender gap in his run against President Carter and change the subject from a foot-in-mouth comment the Republican made blaming trees for air pollution.
President Biden lauded retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer at the White House on Thursday and promised to fill his seat quickly. — would dictate his choice for a court that has approached its work in such transcendently nonpartisan fashion. As if the three justices placed on the court by President Trump arrived through a kind of miracle birth.of his first picks would be a woman, suggesting that negates any comparison with the supposedly shameless Biden. The argument, of course, credits a remarkable prescience to Reagan, who evidently peered into the future and knew he would have the opportunity to make more than one selection.
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