Why wasn't Janice Rogers Brown the first black female supreme court justice?

@windinhishair You seem to overlook how Senator Biden filibustered and blocked her progress despite her credentials and accomplishments. Read the article.

@LamontCranston The article doesn't mention a Supreme Court nomination, because she wasn't nominated to the Supreme Court. It is customary for someone to be nominated to the Supreme Court before they go through the confirmation process and become a Justice. I guess you missed that in civics class. So your whole premise is wrong.

@windinhishair my knowledge of civics is pretty good. Did you ever take a civics class?
The thrust of this is how a competent jurist was held back by Biden , as delineated. Note that she was repeatedly nominated by a Republican president. If she had been timely allowed to get on the D.C. Circuit, which Biden prevented, she would have had a very good chance of nomination to the Supreme Court.
You seem to miss very obvios points: her qualifications and Biden's corruptness.

@LamontCranston I've had plenty of civics and history. Unfortunately, you choose to use your "knowledge" for the purposes of misinformation.

Bush only had one Supreme Court appointee after Brown was appointed to the DC Circuit, and that occurred after Brown's appointment. There was nothing that prevented Bush from appointing Brown to the Supreme Court at that time, should he have wanted to. Samuel Alito ended up with that seat. Trump could also have appointed Brown as one of his three choices, but he didn't appoint her either. Your presumption that a prompt confirmation would have resulted in her nomination to the Court is nothing but idle speculation.

@windinhishair The timeline wouldn't have permitted it for Bush. And by Trump's presidency, she would not have been young enough to have been a prime choice.
What you have ignored is Biden's behavior in the matter.

@LamontCranston You must have missed that Democratic presidents tend to appoint liberal judges, and Republican presidents tend to appoint conservative ones. Trump could have made history by appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson instead of Amy Coney Barrett, but of course he wasn't going to do that because he wanted a conservative on the court. So your entire premise is biased. Republicans can make partisan nominations, but Democrats can't? Janice Rogers Brown was a conservative, so of course the Democrats were going to do whatever they could to prevent her confirmation.

Now that the filibuster has been abolished for judges, no president will be able to make any judicial appointments if the Senate majority is the opposite party. We're way past the era when Scalia was confirmed with 98 votes.

@LeopoldBloom Were you doing a Rip Van Winkle?

@LamontCranston Someone else commented on this and it showed up in my feed. Do I need to explain how SW works? It's not like we haven't interacted over the past two years, unless you don't remember.

@LeopoldBloom It is always an unpleasant remebrance.
Justice Jackson is sort of the Claudine Gay of the Supreme Court.