Ted Cruz Finds It "Offensive" Biden Would Pick a Black Female For SCOTUS

Senator Ted Cruz is continuing the conservative talking point about objecting to President Biden selecting a black woman to sit on The Supreme Court calling the idea "offensive." In his weekly podcast, Cruz stated:

The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive. Black women are, what, six per cent of the US population? He’s saying to 94 per cent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you’.

It’s actually an insult to Black women – if he came and he said ‘I’m going to 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 ‘I’m nominating the person who’s most qualified’. He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying ‘if you’re a white guy – tough luck, if you’re a white woman – tough luck, if you’re Merrick Garland – how much does it suck to be Merrick Garland?” 

He literally has to sit there and be told at the outset he is ineligible, because sorry – wrong skin pigment and wrong y chromosome. It’s an example [of] how Democrats, and in particular the far left – everything is race, they will discriminate based on race, they will pigeonhole you, they don’t care about the ... individual.

As always where does one begin?

For starters, that Cruz would claim to be offended that President Biden would pledge to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court says not only a great deal about the junior Texas Senator, but it also says a great deal about the conservative mindset. This mindset assumes mediocrity rather than excellence when it comes to black women. 

Cruz is quick to make the oft-repeated claim that for Democrats and the far left that everything is about race. His argument would have more credibility if he, his Republican colleagues and right-wing intellectuals didn't play the race card. After all, it was Ilya Shapiro who specifically used the loaded terms "lesser black woman" and "asterisk" while Cruz's GOP colleague from Mississippi Roger Wicker characterized the selection as a "quota." The title of this week's episode of Cruz's podcast is "Only Black Women Need Apply." Not only are Republicans and right-wing intellectuals playing the race card they are dealing the whole deck. 

Of course, Cruz's claim that Biden is telling 94% of Americans that he doesn't give a damn about them is rubbish. As Cruz well knows there is a very small pool which is eligible to sit on the Supreme Court and up until now black females haven't been part of that very small pool.

All of which makes Cruz's reference to Merrick Garland so interesting. The last person selected to sit on the Supreme Court by a Democratic President was the aforementioned Merrick Garland (by President Obama no less) and he didn't even get a damn vote. Cruz and his GOP colleagues made sure of it. And when Garland did get a full vote after President Biden appointed him Attorney General, Cruz voted against his appointment. 

Try as Cruz might to throw a pity party for Garland, being Attorney General of the United States does not suck. Though it could suck for Cruz if he should be held criminally responsible for his role in preventing the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021. No wonder he voted against Garland.

The long and the short of it is that Ted Cruz isn't going to vote for any Supreme Court justice appointed by President Biden. The fact he is dealing the race card is what is truly offensive here.