Fox host Tucker Carlson is effectively getting ass handed to him all over social media, and rightfully so, after he put his disgusting racism on full display during one of his recent segments on the ultra Right-wing network when he made a public call for President Joe Biden to release the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores of Biden’s recent Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
One of President Biden’s many campaigns promises ahead of the 2020 presidential election was his vow to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, should the election shake out in a manner that gave him the opportunity to do so. Like so many of his other promises, Joe Biden is making good on that, as he nominated Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on February 25.
But wouldn’t you know — Tucker Carlson is big mad about that.
Jackson currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and should she be officially confirmed to the position she was nominated for by the President, she will mark her place in history as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
To say the very least, President Biden is wholeheartedly proud of his Supreme Court pick, hailing Jackson as “one of our nation’s top legal minds” during his recent, powerful State of the Union address.
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This remark unsurprisingly ruffled Tucker Carlson’s feathers.
“Biden went on to mention someone called Ketanji Brown Jackson,” Tucker said in his segment last night. “That’s not a name most Americans know because Ketanji Brown Jackson has been an appellate judge for less than a year. But Joe Biden assured us she is, quote, ‘one of our top legal minds.'”
The Fox talking head then proceeded to play a clip of the President’s SOTU speech, where Biden noted that a Supreme Court nomination is one of the “most serious” constitutional responsibilities a US president is beholden to.
“So, is Ketanji Brown Jackson—a name that even Joe Biden has trouble pronouncing—one of the top legal minds in the entire country?” Carlson said after the SOTU clip.
“We certainly hope so. Biden’s right. Appointing her is one of his gravest constitutional duties. So it might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. How did she do on the LSATs? Why wouldn’t you tell us that? That would settle the question conclusively as to whether she’s a once-in-a-generation legal talent, the next Learned Hand. It would seem like Americans in a democracy have a right to know that and much more before giving her a lifetime appointment, but we didn’t hear that.”
This is, of course, in addition to Tucker’s equally disgusting remarks just a few days ago, when he claimed that Jackson’s nomination was “on the basis of appearance.”
Tucker: It might be time for Joe Biden to let us know Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. Why wouldn’t he tell us that… pic.twitter.com/boPHU5PnMd
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 3, 2022
As you can imagine, social media absolutely destroyed Fox’s biggest stooge:
Judge Brown Jackson graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, Cum Laude from Harvard Law, & was the editor of the Harvard Law review. She is the real deal. I’ve never heard “Tie Too Tight” ask about lsat scores for other nominees, but typical of those who feel a bit “inadequate.” https://t.co/GeU6qE1isG
— Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair (@harrisonjaime) March 3, 2022
BTW, her LSAT score is probably phenomenal but no one asks for it as a qualifying measure for any legal position. I know I was never asked for it at the firms I worked for including @HughesHubbard & the @SDNYnews
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) March 3, 2022
It’s bad form at Harvard Law School to even *mention* your LSAT score and Tucker would know that if he wasn’t an idiot frozen dinner scion who literally couldn’t buy his way into Harvard or standardize test himself out of a paper bag. https://t.co/QgDmyyWtqw
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 3, 2022
Did he ask for Brett Kavanaugh’s LSAT score?
— Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 (@KellyScaletta) March 3, 2022
Not sure @TuckerCarlson has any grounds to make wildly racist attacks on the academic standing of others, given his BA in Drunken Mediocrity from Trinity, but there you have ithttps://t.co/9HGaZtJOyW pic.twitter.com/0Hr78cdcrf
— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) March 3, 2022
This is textbook racism. Not even a dog whistle. Show clips of Tucker asking for LSATs of a white candidate. Outside of the ridiculous argument that scores to get INTO law school are the measure of qualification, the presumption that Black pp are dumb is standard white supremacy. https://t.co/KmCC973RMz
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 3, 2022
Someone cancel this asshole already.
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