Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden’s future Supreme Court pick to the “disaster” that she believes Kamala Harris has been as vice president.
Gabbard expressed concerns on Monday on Twitter about Biden’s future Supreme Court pick. Biden has promised he will pick a black woman, noting that he will use the same criteria he promised to use when picking his vice president in the 2020 election.
“Biden chose Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex — not qualification,” Gabbard tweeted. “She’s been a disaster. Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same criteria. Identity politics is destroying our country.”
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Biden chose Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex—not qualification. She’s been a disaster. Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same criteria. Identity politics is destroying our country.
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) January 31, 2022
Biden advocated early on in his campaign for appointing a diverse number of nominees under his administration. “We need to put a black woman on the Supreme Court,” then-candidate Biden tweeted in February 2020. That decision, along with the promise to appoint a black woman as vice president, helped Biden win an endorsement from Rep. Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, which played a significant part in solidifying Biden’s approval in the Democratic Party.
Biden has nominated more black women to the U.S. Court of Appeals than any other administration before him, with eight nominations and five confirmations so far. While the president has not named a candidate to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, legal analysts have noted that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was on former President Barack Obama’s shortl ist in 2016.
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Gabbard and Harris have had a contested history in the past. The two clashed more than once during the 2020 Democratic primaries, with Gabbard attacking Harris’s criminal justice record during the Nov. 20, 2019, Democratic primary debates. While Gabbard stayed in the 2020 Democratic race longer than Harris, she struggled to get support.
