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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
Well, I just want to make the point to you that there have been generations of black women qualified for the court. And you have had a lot of white men on the court, again, some of the great brilliant legal minds of our nation`s history. But the reality is, a lot of them didn`t go to law school, didn`t have her experience.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey
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msnbc.com

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Senator Booker highlighted the historical exclusion of qualified black women from the Supreme Court.

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