White House burns Wicker for criticising Biden supreme court pick
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5VJAD)
Republican senator says choice will be beneficiary of affirmative action but critics point to support for Trump vow to pick woman
In a barbed intervention on Saturday, the White House said it hoped a Republican senator who complained that Joe Biden's supreme court pick would be the beneficiary of race-based affirmative action, would give the nominee the same consideration he gave Amy Coney Barrett.
Barrett was nominated and confirmed shortly before the 2020 election, after Donald Trump pledged to pick a woman to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The hardline Catholic duly succeeded the liberal lion, establishing a 6-3 conservative majority.
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