Biden to name Tubman to Supreme Court

By Guido Immelman

Yippy Day News

White House sources say President Joe Biden will nominate former slave Harriet Tubman to the United States Supreme Court, replacing long-time Justice Stephen Breyer.

Biden had previously announced he would appoint a black woman to the court, in keeping with his 2024 election slogan of “Diversity, Diversity, Diversity.”

Breyer, 83, said he will resign “when my replacement is confirmed.” Tubman, who will be 200 years old in March, was previously considered front-runner to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The possibility of the Maryland-born abolitionist becoming the first black woman whose likeness appeared on U.S. currency, came to naught when no such order came from several presidents, including Barrack H. Obama, the country’s first black president.

Biden said he remembered Tubman’s visit to his home state of Delaware in the early 1950s.

“I was only a teenager,” Biden told sources. “Maybe 15 or 10 years old, maybe it was 9, right after I got out of jail, I was released from prison, they arrested me, you know, during a civil rights demonstration for, you know, marching without a permit and this black family had, nobody wanted to sell them a house, but there was a, a walking thing, through downtown, past a Five and Dime store I used to buy the, the things in. Candy, that’s what it was, and she, Henrietta, came through town. I don’t remember if she bought me any candy. I did get her autograph, though. It’s on a piece of paper somewhere. Jill, where is that piece of paper?”

Sources say Biden based his coming nomination of Tubman on approved Democratic Party guidelines.

“She -- Helen Tatum was, used to be a slave, so I guess that means she was black, and she said she was, she identified as a woman, so I guess that means she was female.”

(c) Bob Merriman, Jan. 28, 2022