Brown was nominated by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 25, 2003 to fill the seat vacated by Stephen F. Williams.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on her nomination on October 22. After her name had passed out of committee and had been sent to the full Senate, there was a failed cloture vote on her nomination on November 14, 2003. Brown's nomination was returned to the President under the standing rules of the Senate when the 108th United States Congress adjourned.[citation needed]
Bush renominated Brown on February 14, 2005, early in the first session of the 109th United States Congress. On April 21, 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee again endorsed Brown and referred her name to the full Senate. On May 23, Senator John McCain announced an agreement between seven Republican and seven Democratic U.S. Senators to ensure an up-or-down vote on Brown and several other stalled Bush nominees.[citation needed]
During the summer of 2005, Brown was also considered as a possible nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court, but Samuel Alito was chosen instead.[2]
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In 1975 Biden sponsored a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation through busing.
He even said he would theoretically support a Constitutional amendment to stop busing and, amazingly admitted that he was siding with racists in the Democratic Party.
Biden’s legislation passed the Senate on a 50-43 vote, and Biden championed his anti-busing legislation throughout the 1970s. In 1977, he co-authored a bill that dramatically limited the ability of federal courts to order busing.
To get it passed, he actively sought the support of leading southern segregationists.
A report from the Civil Rights Commission released later that year determined that Biden’s efforts had badly hindered school integration.
Even his now-running mate,
Kamala Harris, then a young girl, was impacted, and she let Biden know during the first Democratic Presidential Primary Debate last year.
Biden insisted that his bills had nothing to do with racism, but in 1977 he said during a Senate hearing that what he feared the most if his legislation failed was his children growing up
in what he called a “racial jungle” if busing led to rapid and massive school integration.
"Unless we do something about this,” he said, “my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this."
Biden gave a famous speech in 1993 in which he used barely coded racist language to describe who he called “predators on our streets.”
Biden helped author the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which led to dramatically higher incarceration rates across the country and, its critics contended,
locked up Black and Hispanic Americans at far higher rates than whites. It was, they said, a racist piece of legislation that has devastated minority communities for a quarter of a century.
By the early to mid-2000s, Biden began getting more overt in his casually racist comments, telling a man of Indian descent in 2006 that in his home state of Delaware, one can’t go into a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts without having a slight Indian accent.
The comment was an obvious reference to the stereotype of Indian-Americans as convenience store owners
A year later, during his second run for the presidency, he became embroiled in controversy when he described one of his opponents,
then-Senator Barack Obama—a Black man—as “articulate” and “clean.”