Wicker Says Next Justice Is an Affirmative Action Pick

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said that President Biden’s forthcoming pick of the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, the Mississippi Free Press reports.

Said Wicker: “The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota.”

He added: “The majority of the court may be saying writ large that it’s unconstitutional. We’ll see how that irony works out.”