This question is grounded in pretended ignorance of the obvious reality that Biden had a list of potential justices available to him well before he won the nomination, and that his people have been refining and tweaking that list on an onging basis over the last year.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1487792676317577217
The Biden administration is considering all possible nominees. They've been considering all possible nominees since months before he won. Biden's longstanding commitment to putting a Black woman on the Court is not mutually exclusive with a consideration of all possible nominees.
It's just a profundly silly, disingenous, and destructive way of framing the question.
As if Biden announced that Breyer would be replaced by a Black woman without having—at a minimum—a clear understanding of who the top candidates for the post were, and how they compared to other potential nominees who aren't Black women.
As if he made the commitment, then started running around the White House like Billy Eichner, yelling "For a dollar, name me a Black woman lawyer!" at any staffer who walked by.
Also, it's a small thing in comparison to the other flaws in the question, but the question asks how Biden should fill "the opening on the US Supreme Court." Not "his first opening" or "the current opening," just "the opening." That's a phrasing bound to skew the answers further.
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