Black Democrats pitch Loretta Lynch for Supreme Court

US Attorney ꧅General Loretta Lynch should be tapped to fill🌄 Justice Anotnin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court, urged members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday.

“😼She’s already been vetted. She meets the criteria,” Rep. Eli🧜jah Cummings (D-Md) .

Lynch would be the first African-American woman﷽ justice on the court. Cummings argued ꧟that Justice Clarence Thomas, who is also black, does not represent the community’s interests.

“African-Amerꦬican women have played a major role in our electoral process,” Cummings said.

Lynch is a Harvard-educated lawyer and the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where she prosecuted the Abn🍨er Louima police brutality case.

She w𒐪as confirmed by the Republican-majorit𓆉y Senate last year in a 56-43 vote.

CBC member Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said that if President Barack 🤪Obama nominated Lynch, Republican opposition to the prospect of a✅n election-year judicial appointment would crumble.

“Probably more𒅌 than anyone else, she would, with open minds, sail through the Judiciary Committee and onto the floor for a vote,” he said.