Forward Kentucky: Clardy: Barrett nomination is “cynical tokenism”
Berry Craig
By BERRY CRAIG
“Amy Coney Barrett brings a resume that could make her the most conservative new justice since Clarence Thomas and a dream addition for Republicans looking to remake the U.S. Supreme Court,” a trio of reporters wrote in Bloomberg News.
Brian Clardy, a Murray State University historian, sees another parallel between the Barrett and Thomas nominations: “It smacks of cynical tokenism, pure and simple.”