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    Mark Z. Barabak: The architect of Reagan's pledge to put a woman on the Supreme Court says it was all political

    The candidate for president was in difficult straits and so he made a promise that would change history. If elected, he said, he would shatter more than 200 years of precedent and nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. That was Joe Biden, his face pressed to the mat days ahead of the 2020 South Carolina primary. His announcement clinched a key endorsement that reversed Biden's ...
    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Feb 02, 2022 3 minutes

    The candidate for president was in difficult straits and so he made a promise that would change history.

    If elected, he said, he would shatter more than 200 years of precedent and nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    That was Joe Biden, his face pressed to the mat days ahead of the 2020 South Carolina primary. His announcement clinched a key endorsement that reversed Biden's fortunes and swiftly helped make him the Democratic nominee.

    The circumstances were similar in 1980, when Ronald Reagan pledged to name the court's

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