<p>Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) faced backlash online on Monday afternoon over remarks that she made during the confirmation hearings of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;Though my Republican colleagues and public figures have attempted to undermine your qualifications, through their pejorative use of the term &#8216;affirmative action&#8217; and they have implied you were solely nominated due to your race and not for other factors,&#8221; Hirono claimed. &#8220;Apparently, some have even claimed that you need to show your LSAT scores to determine whether you are a top legal mind. This is incredibly offensive and condescending.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Let me be clear, your nomination is about, not about filling a quota. It is about time,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished black woman on the Supreme Court. It&#8217;s about time, our highest court better reflects the country it serves. It&#8217;s about time that black women and girls across the country can finally see themselves who look like them sitting on the highest court making decisions that will impact their lives.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race&#8230;Your nomination is not about filling a quota&#8230; It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court,&quot; Sen. Hirono says of Judge Jackson in opening remarks. <a href="https://t.co/5CsFDDheXY">pic.twitter.com/5CsFDDheXY</a></p>
<p>&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1505964838576603136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Notable responses included:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Stephen L. Miller</strong>, political commentator: &#8220;Nobody is implying she was nominated simply because of her race. Joe Biden actually said it.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Dana Loesch</strong>, political commentator: &#8220;Biden actually said it on the campaign trail. I guess Judge Janice Rogers Brown didn’t count when Democrats threatened to filibuster her nomination.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Nate Madden</strong>, GOP comms: &#8220;&#8230; that conclusion implies this actually IS about filling a quota &#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Helen Raleigh</strong>, author: &#8220;It was the President Biden who said he would pick someone based on race &amp; gender. And many of us have repeatedly warned that affirmative action brings stigma and taints the achievements of minorities it intended to help.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Charles Fain Lehman</strong>, reporter: &#8220;One of the weird features of contemporary race discourse is that quotas are both absolutely necessary and also totally unthinkable.&#8221; He added,  &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s stated view is that Stephen Breyer&#8217;s seat ought to go to a black woman. That&#8217;s a quota (of one black woman on SCOTUS)! You can, of course, be *pro quota*. But it&#8217;s weird to favor racial apportionment and *also* say that it&#8217;s demeaning to apportion.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Matt Murphy</strong>, radio host: &#8220;Regardless of ANYTHING else, according to Joe Biden, if she were not black and female, she would not be there. Those are his parameters. This was his quota. Not mine.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Tamlyn Sheng</strong>, political strategist: &#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;not about filling a quota,&#8217; but your race is really important, but it had nothing to do with your nomination, but President Biden said he would only appoint a black woman. So it is about race?&#8221;</li>
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