Watch Joe Biden promise to filibuster African American woman nominated to Supreme Court

Robert Walker

Joe Biden didn’t always want a black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement, one potential nominee to replace Justice O’Connor was rumored to have been Janice Rogers Brown.

Brown, born in the post-World War II era in Greenville, Alabama was the daughter of a sharecropper who was raised by her grandmother before moving to Sacramento with her mom. She eventually went to college and became a lawyer, getting her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Biden made it a point to go on national television on “Face the Nation” to declare he would filibuster Brown if she was nominated back in 2005 by then-President George W. Bush. Biden and Democrats blocked her confirmation. Senator Barack Obama spoke out against Brown, claiming she was too much of a right-wing radical to sit on the Supreme Court, calling her judicial style “social Darwinism”.

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The good old boys of the Democrat Party at the time called her incoherent, dishonest, and incompetent.


Brown never became the first black female Supreme Court Justice and Democrats tried to block her appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. which she was confirmed later with a 56-43 vote.


It was Jim Crow politics at work for Biden in 2005 that prevented the first black woman from sitting on the Supreme Court for nearly another 20 years.

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