In a rush to praise Joe Biden for declaring he’d nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, Chuck Schumer just erased the first black Supreme Court justice from history on the Senate floor:
.@SenSchumer: "Until 1981, this powerful body, the Supreme Court, was all White men. Imagine. America wasn't all White men in 1981, or ever. Under President Biden and this Senate majority, we're taking historic steps to make the courts look more like the country they serve." pic.twitter.com/PrEjoLrmPH
— The Hill (@thehill) February 3, 2022
Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first black justice, was confirmed to the bench in 1967 and was there until 1991.
But according to Schumer, either Marshall didn’t exist or he was WHITE! Because in 1981 the court was ALL WHITE MEN.
Seriously, he wanted it to be all white men so bad that he just revised history.
I bet Schumer’s staffers who wrote his speech were sitting there clutching their faces as he completely botched their speech.