Jamelle Bouie, top political correspondent for Slate and a political analyst for CBS News, opined that the Supreme Court should have justices without legal backgrounds.
Within the context of calling for “diversity,” Bouie took to Twitter to share his political recommendation:
Bouie is no stranger to racial agitation. Last week, he described whites who voted for Donald Trump as animated by anti-black racism: “White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama.”
In January, Bouie described the Trump campaign as “divisive [and] ethno-nationalist.” While stating that Trump avoided “explicit racism,” he accused Trump of pushing “essential chauvinism,” presumably of a racial flavor.
In 2012, Bouie claimed Republicans would politically damage themselves among Latino voters as a result of their opposition to the nomination of then Judge Sonia Sotomayor to justiceship on the Supreme Court. Latino Americans, he implied, supported Sotomayor’s nomination due to racial and ethnic solidarity on the basis of Sotomayor’s Puerto Rican roots.
CBS News presents Bouie as an objective and non-partisan political analyst.
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