Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down a question about whether or not he had enough black women on his staff to effectively help him navigate the process surrounding President Joe Biden&#8217;s imminent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ben-carson-slams-bidens-race-based-supreme-court-pledge-as-abominable-identity-politics/">Supreme Court nomination</a>.
The question, which was posed by Latino Rebels correspondent Pablo Manriquez, was highlighted by Forbes in a tweeted video clip on Tuesday afternoon:
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Question: &#8220;How many Black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision to move forward with the SCOTUS nomination.&#8221;
McConnell: &#8220;Actually, I haven&#8217;t checked. We don&#8217;t have a racial quota in my office. But I&#8217;ve had a number of African American employees.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/z6e0Cowjkc">pic.twitter.com/z6e0Cowjkc</a>
— Forbes (@Forbes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1488617503853060101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;How many Black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision to move forward with the SCOTUS nomination?&#8221; Manriquez asked, adding that he&#8217;d also like to have the same question answered by the other senators who were present at the press conference.
&#8220;How many what?&#8221; McConnell asked. Twice, the Republican leader asked Manriquez to repeat the question, finally suggesting that he remove his mask so that everyone could better hear what he was asking.
&#8220;How many Black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision to move forward with the SCOTUS nomination?&#8221; Manriquez removed his mask and asked for the third time.
&#8220;Yeah — Actually, I haven&#8217;t checked. We don&#8217;t have a racial quota in my office. But I&#8217;ve had a number of African American employees, both male and female, over the years in all kinds of different positions, including speechwriter,&#8221; McConnell&#8217;s response was matter-of-fact.
Manriquez appeared to be implying that unless he was being advised by black women, McConnell would not be equipped to navigate the Supreme Court confirmation process of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/progressives-demand-biden-pick-supreme-court-nominee-based-on-race-and-sex-select-first-black-female-justice/">Biden&#8217;s eventual nominee</a> — whom the president has promised will be a black woman.
The Independent&#8217;s Washington correspondent Eric Michael Garcia responded to critics — who attacked McConnell, claiming he didn&#8217;t know how many black female staffers he had because he <a href="https://twitter.com/BCDreyer/status/1488683584076623877">didn&#8217;t have any</a> — in a series of tweets.
&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to call out Mitch McConnell for his lack of Black women on his staff, but if you follow @Dear_White_Staffers on Instagram, you would know that some of y&#8217;all&#8217;s progressive favs do even worse when it comes to hiring Black women,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1488601732519235590">began</a>.
&#8220;Incidentally, I don&#8217;t know of Black women but I DO know Daniel Cameron, who is Kentucky&#8217;s Attorney General and a Black man, is a former McConnell legal counsel,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1488600792705687560">added</a>.
President Biden is expected to announce a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer — who will step down at the end of the court&#8217;s current session this summer — in the coming weeks, and he has promised several times that he will nominate the first black woman to fill Breyer&#8217;s seat.

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