Some people are
unhappy to hear President Obama suggest that attributes like
gender, ethnicity, and "empathy" are critical in choosing a Supreme
Court justice. But as Steve Chapman writes, it's a little late for
most conservatives to decry identity politics. Few objections were
heard from Republicans in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush
decided that the ideal person to fill the vacancy left by Thurgood
Marshall, the court's first black justice, was Clarence Thomas, who
just happened to be black as well.
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