Opinion by Paul Waldman: An ugly racist attack on Kentanji Brown Jackson makes its inevitable return
So is Kentaji Brown Jackson, a name that even Joe Biden has trouble pronouncing, one of the top legal minds in the entire country? We certainly hope so, it’s Biden’s right, appointing her is his one of his gravest constitutional duties. So it might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. Wonder how she did on the LSATs, why won’t he tell us that?is she?
— and then we move to the demand for documented proof that Jackson, whose qualifications are unquestionably stellar, is smart enough to be a Supreme Court justice.To be honest, I’m surprised it took Carlson this long. Needless to say, neither he nor anyone else on the right demanded to see Brett M. Kavanaugh’s LSAT scores, or Amy Coney Barrett’s, or Neil M. Gorsuch’s. That those justices were perfectly smart was the default assumption, something that wasn’t even worth wondering about. Why, just look at them!
This is something almost every person of color in politics faces sooner or later, no matter how brilliant and accomplished they are. Conservatives will claim that they’re unqualified and dumb, and that their markers of success, such as being editor of the Harvard Law Review or clerking on the Supreme Court are in fact not markers of success at all. Instead they’re proof of special and undeserved treatment due to race.Take Barack Obama.
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