Writing for The Hill, African American civil-rights lawyer Ben Crump argues that President Biden should nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. A central part of Crump’s argument is that Biden’s nominee “must represent African Americans in a way that has cultural competency, forcefulness and instills deep pride” and must be “rooted in an experience that so many of us share.”
Crump is obviously taking a swipe at Leondra Kruger. As the New York Times states in this article, Kruger is the “daughter of pediatricians — her father white and Jewish, her mother Black and Jamaican-born” — and “grew up in South Pasadena, a leafy Los Angeles suburb so old-fashioned that the movie ‘Back to the Future’ was filmed there.” As I noted two weeks ago, her background of apparent privilege doesn’t fit the Left’s favored narrative.
It’s far less clear why Crump believes that Jackson fares better on his metric than Michelle Childs does.