President Joe Biden nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court had the potential to help lift him from his second-year slump, but then Russia invaded Ukraine.
Despite the pomp and circumstance of Biden's announcement, staged in the White House's Cross Hall, the president shared cable news split screens with heart-wrenching images from Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin closed in on the capital, Kyiv.Biden's Supreme Court nomination of Jackson, who is on the precipice of becoming the first black female justice, comes after weeks of welcomed distraction thanks to speculation over the presidential pick.
Aggressive Progressive podcast host Christopher Hahn dismissed criticism that Biden's response to Russia and Ukraine demonstrated weakness. “As we watch freedom and liberty under attack abroad, I'm here to fulfill my responsibilities under the Constitution to preserve freedom and liberty here in the United States of America,” Biden said."She cares about making sure that our democracy works for the American people," he added of Jackson.
"True to form, Biden abandoned any pretense of unity and nominated a politician in robes instead," RNC spokesman Tommy Pigott said. Biden has to address Russia and Ukraine as former President Jimmy Carter did in 1980 after the then-Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, according to Kall. But the president cannot dwell on international relations when his audience is largely concerned with the pandemic, crime, and immigration before November, the University of Michigan director of debate and author of Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States: Addresses to a Joint Session of Congress, said.
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