Tucker Carlson calls Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson a “damning case against affirmative action”
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Citation From the November 1, 2022, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): When you elevate people on the basis of their appearance, you tend not to get very impressive people. Why would you? Unless you're buying sunscreen, skin tone is a totally irrelevant criterion. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor unwittingly made that point today.
Sotomayor openly concedes that she got her job because of affirmative action. She was completely and demonstrably unqualified for the position. Obama chose her because of the way she looked. Now that may sound deranged, but it actually happened, no one disputes it.
Today we saw the consequences of this. During oral arguments, Sotomayor made a mistake that no first year law school student would ever make. She repeatedly confused the terms de facto and de jure. Now if you're a lawyer, that is an inconceivable mistake.
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We have racial segregation under the law in America? That's what Justice Sonia Sotomayor just said. Why is this woman wearing a robe? Even after Justice Alito corrected her, Sotomayor kept saying it, there's de jure -- or she said, de jure segregation in 2022. Jim Crow is still on the books. Okay. This is the society that affirmative action has created. Sonia Sotomayor doesn't know what de jure means, Ketanji Brown Jackson can't define what a woman is. It's hard to imagine a more damning case against affirmative action than its results. And it's always going to be that way because the color of your skin is irrelevant. And if we don't believe that, then everything falls apart.