Thread by @ggreeneva

.@ElieNYC, in my opinion, has spotted the jig: “Promoting women of color cannot be done in a bipartisan fashion. Republicans will not allow it. When Democrats look for nominees … Republicans will vociferously object to any woman of color put forward.” thenation.com/article/politi…

I’m old enough to remember not only what Lani Guinier went through when Bill Clinton attempted to appoint her to run the civil rights division of DOJ — but also how Tom Cotton held the nomination of Cassandra Butts until she died, just to make Obama feel bad.

https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/936252412939194371

Lani Guinier, for those not around in 1993, saw her nomination spiked over ‘radical’ views on race and voting rights. In hindsight, though — in the Trump years’ aftermath, and after the rise of #BLM — her basic analysis has pretty clearly won the argument.

(Source for the above: ↘️) prospect.org/justice/lani-g…

Yep. “Mitch McConnell’s commitment to civil rights,” the headline asserts — even as McConnell was in the midst, in 2015, of holding up countless judicial nominees, many of color, to enable the court-packing spree he would begin under Trump two years later.

https://twitter.com/meredithshiner/status/1364273698358784000

We could also talk about Republicans’ facts-notwithstanding use of the Benghazi attacks as a cudgel against Susan Rice. Seriously, we could be here all day. mediamatters.org/benghazi-consp…

🎯: “Activists who pushed Biden to nominate a diverse Cabinet are … noticing [a] phenomenon: Many of the president’s Black, Latino, Asian and Native American nominees are encountering more political turbulence than their White counterparts.” washingtonpost.com/politics/many-…