I'm not making this up: they really tweeted this.
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Uh, I think Justices Thurgood Marshall (the first black SCOTUS justice) and Clarence Thomas (the second) might have some thoughts about that.
It wasn't only the tweet either!!! 😂
The mistake even made its way into the halls of the Senate:
Senator Mike Lee spoke about the Politico blunder in the Judiciary Committee meeting on Monday morning where Jackson's nomination is up for a vote.
"This can't be something that simply focuses on the historic nature of the nomination," said Lee. "Earlier today, there was a Politico tweet—Politico sent out a tweet reading as follows: 'Ketanji Brown Jackson will likely be confirmed as the first Black supreme court justice by the end of this week.' ... If that were true, that would come as news the family of Thurgood Marshall... to Justice Clarence Thomas, and his family."
"When we hear, what we've heard today, calls for making sure that we respect the need to show inclusiveness, let's remember how members of this committee have treated others. Remember how they treated Justice Clarence Thomas, remember how they're still treating Clarence Thomas. People on the left are savagely attacking him, one of the most decent human beings that I've ever known," he said.
You can't make it up!
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