They 'Don't Trust Black Women': Whoopi RAGES at GOP Opposition to Jackson

April 4th, 2022 1:46 PM

With the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson likely to be voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, the coven on ABC’s The View spent part of their Monday show decrying Republican opposition to Jackson and lashing out at Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And according to the head witch in charge, Whoopi Goldberg, the reason was the usual culprit (when they’re grasping at straws): racism.

After playing a clip of Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) saying he’s a “no” on Jackson, Goldberg, who once denied the Holocaust was about race, demanded that he “just say, ‘I don't trust a black woman to do the job.’”

“We all know what it is. We know what it is. We recognize it. We're used to this, but you know what? You can't take away what this woman is, and who she is, and what she's done and how she got there,” she sneered.

Neither Goldberg nor the rest of the panel had an issue with then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Democrats opposed and initially filibustered Judge Janice Rogers Brown (who is black) when President George W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Nor when the Democrats, led by Biden, carried out a “high-tech lynching” of Justice Clarence Thomas in his confirmation hearings.

A few moments later, faux conservative Ana Navarro started shrieking about how Republicans really should “do the right thing” by confirming Jackson because of the color of her skin instead of bowing to “lame, pathetic, cowardice partisanship” (click “expand”):

 

 

NAVARRO: They are bending themselves into pretzel shapes, and they're agonizing and apologizing basically for saying, we're not going to do the right thing. We feel bad that we're voting against her. They feel bad because they know she's going to be the justice --

SUNNY HOSTIN: Not bad enough.

NAVARRO: Well, they feel bad because she's going to have the 50 votes. She's going to be the justice, and they are going to have missed the historical moment of voting for the first black woman.

(…)

NAVARRO: And they're going to go down in history as having been against the first black woman justice which is a big moment for this country. Whomever likes it, fine, whomever dislikes it, fine. Whether you accept it, you acknowledge it, it is a huge historical moment. Almost 240 years of the Supreme Court. Deal with it.

“Forget the moment. Forget the moment. Just forget the moment. Forget that she's the first black woman. She has the chops to do the job,” Goldberg came back shouting. She proceeded to spout off about how those that opposed Jackson or came off unsure were “not thinking about what's right for us. You're not thinking about what's best for the country.”

For her part, co-host Sara Haines got her talking point crossed again as she was both suggesting Barrett didn’t get tough questions and that the tough questions she got were justified. “They said, ‘well, you didn't ask these questions with Amy Coney Barrett,” she said before eventually suggesting the religious discrimination she faced was warranted because she “interprets the Constitution very differently than” late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Earlier in the segment, co-host and purported legal mind Sunny Hostin argued Republicans should be fine with Jackson being confirmed because it didn’t change the ideological makeup of the court. It was a disingenuous argument for sure because dissenting opinions can be the basis for overturning rulings later.

And as they neared the end of the segment, Hostin also lashed out at Justice Barrett by cherry-picking things from her background to suggest she was not qualified to be on the court. And Hostin went so far as to suggest Barrett “had no experience practicing law whatsoever.”

And she helped conclude the segment by equating confirming Jackson to making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday:

And to your point, Ana, I really do wonder if they'll regret it. I remember when we had Senator John McCain here on the show. And I spoke to him backstage, and I said, “I was really disappointed in you vote against making Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday a federal holiday. I’m still disappointed in that.” He said, “that was the worst vote of my life. And I regret it.” He said that to me, and he regretted it. I hope these Republicans regret it.

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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
April 4, 2022
11:15:21 a.m. Eastern

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know, this is the most ridiculous -- just say, “I don't trust a black woman to do the job.” Because I know that y'all didn't have these same issues with Amy Coney Barrett. You didn't ask those questions. You didn't have those problems. And when Amy Coney Barrett answered the same way that Judge Ketanji Brown did when you asked her if you thought they were going to need more people on the Supreme Court, nobody seemed to have a problem with her answer.

SUNNY HOSTIN: No.

GOLDBERG: But so many of you have problems with Judge -- you know what? I know what this is.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: We all know what it is. We know what it is. We recognize it. We're used to this, but you know what? You can't take away what this woman is, and who she is, and what she's done and how she got there.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

SARA HAINES: She's going to be voted through, right?

HOSTIN: She is going to be voted through. I think it will --

HOSTIN: I think it will come out of this committee a tie, 11 to 11. We don't know yet. And Senator Schumer can bring it to the floor and she'll probably be confirmed on Thursday. But to Whoopi’s point, you know, what's interesting to me is that we know that the court is conservative. It's conservative 6 to 3. Judge Jackson – soon-to-be, in my view, Justice Jackson's point of view or whatever she does, does not change the composition of the court. So for that senator -- for Senator blunt to even imply she's not going to do what needs to be done is --

GOLDBERG:  It's bull. Is bull.

HOSTIN: It’s bull.

ANA NAVARRO: I'll tell you what it is. It's lame, pathetic, cowardice partisanship. Okay? Because they are – they are bending themselves into pretzel shapes, and they're agonizing and apologizing basically for saying, we're not going to do the right thing. We feel bad that we're voting against her. They feel bad because they know she's going to be the justice --

HOSTIN: Not bad enough.

NAVARRO: Well, they feel bad because she's going to have the 50 votes. She's going to be the justice, and they are going to have missed the historical moment of voting for the first black woman.

HAINES: Yep.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

NAVARRO: And they're going to go down in history as having been against the first black woman justice which is a big moment for this country. Whomever likes it, fine, whomever dislikes it, fine. Whether you accept it, you acknowledge it, it is a huge historical moment. Almost 240 years of the Supreme Court. Deal with it.

GOLDBERG: Well, you know what? Go ahead.

HAINES: And, you know, not having the math to stop it gave them the liberty to do the right thing. Knowing they can't stop it, that's the time to say, “oh, good my political pressure is off.” This is an amazing moment, and it's an amazing moment because she is more than qualified to do this job.

GOLDBERG: That's – that's the thing to keep in mind. Forget the moment. Forget the moment. Just forget the moment. Forget that she's the first black woman. She has the chops to do the job. And the fact that you are saying, “well, no, I'm not sure,” just tells me once again all of y'all who are saying, “you know, well, I'm not sure,” that you are not thinking about what's right for us. You're not thinking about what's best for the country.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: Why wouldn't you want someone who is overly qualified to do the job so it gets done right?!

HAINES: And a lot of people compare -- they said, “well, you didn't ask these questions with Amy Coney Barrett.” Just to point out, Amy Coney Barrett was rushed through within a month of an election when the Republicans, Mitch McConnell had said, “I'm not even looking at Merrick Garland in the same year as an election.”

And two, she changed the – She was swapped out. RBG she interprets the Constitution very differently than Amy Coney Barrett. So there were two things that were up against Amy Coney Barrett. So, to compare her to this justice – almost justice at the time.

HOSTIN: She never tried a case. She never tried a case before. She never represented anyone in litigation. She never argued a case before the Supreme Court. She never wrote any Supreme Court briefs.

GOLDBERG (passes card over): Read that.

HOSTIN: Okay. She only had three years of experience as a judge before coming a Supreme Court justice. She’d never been a judge before Trump appointed her to the 7th circuit court of appeal.

GOLDBERG: Never.

HOSTIN: She never tried a case to verdict or argued an appeal in court. She almost had no experience practicing law whatsoever. She went to my law school, so I'm proud of that, but the bottom line is: she wasn't supremely qualified.

And to your point, Ana, I really do wonder if they'll regret it. I remember when we had Senator John McCain here on the show. And I spoke to him backstage, and I said, “I was really disappointed in you vote against making Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday a federal holiday. I’m still disappointed in that.” He said, “that was the worst vote of my life. And I regret it.” He said that to me, and he regretted it. I hope these Republicans regret it.

GOLDBERG: He was a different kind of person.

[Crosstalk]

NAVARRO: -- to admit mistake and to have regrets are basically extinct right now. I do hope Mitt Romney does the right thing. Mitt, if you are listening, this is your time.

GOLDBERG: We'll be right back.