[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H945]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, this morning at the National Prayer 
Breakfast, the outstanding speakers of President Joe Biden, Vice 
President Kamala Harris, and Bryan Stevenson combined together to say, 
Use your faith to make a difference. Let me applaud the President of 
the United States.
  And in this month of February, where we typically honor African 
Americans and the history of how they contributed to this Nation, the 
President announced that he would nominate to the United States Supreme 
Court an African-American woman, a Black woman.
  Since 1789, March 4, was when the Supreme Court first organized, 
there has never been one of the major elements of society--first, a 
woman, and then a Black woman, who, of course, in slavery, suffered 
alongside of men and children. Black women continued, in essence, to be 
subordinate. Continuing as domestics, fighting in wars, supporting 
families, and intellectually some of the smartest geniuses around. They 
were in fact ready to be on the Supreme Court.
  They won't have a ``woke'' agenda. There won't be a question of 
whether they know a law book. Let me just say, it is time for a Black 
woman on the United States Supreme Court. Do it now. I thank the 
President.

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