will be someone of extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. i m announcing today that one of theirs in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman i can possibly find. well, law turns on precedent, and that is a very prominent precedent for how presidents can mix qualifications, you heard them both reference that, with an eye on diversifying the court. it s a comparison rachel maddow reported on amidst some conservatives now claiming that these reagan esque pledges have suddenly become suspect. when the conservative media and republicans today have been pounding their chests and screaming about how wrong, just how wrong it is that joe biden made a pledge during his campaign that if he were elected, he would put an african american woman on the supreme