It’s a wrong direction to choose a Supreme Court Justice candidate based on race and gender instead of merit and qualifications, said Ben Carson, the Housing and Urban Developing Secretary under the Trump administration.
“So many people fought for such a long time to make sure that we had equality of opportunity. And a lot of blood was shed. A lot of people went to prison. Then we just turn around and sort of throw all that out, and start saying, ‘We’re going to make the qualification something over which a person has no control—their external characteristics,’ and that’s moving in the wrong direction,” Carson told NTD’s “Capitol Report” program in a recent interview, referring to President Joe Biden’s pledge to send a black woman to the high court.
