Posted on 01/27/22
| News Source: NY Post
As news broke about Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retiring, speculation ramped up that President Biden could tap embattled Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him — keeping his promise to appoint a black woman to the High Court while opening possibilities of a less politically tainted running mate for 2024, the NY Post reports.
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday endorsed the unlikely notion that Harris could get the nomination as a way to end to the controversies surrounding her.
“I think it’s a theory that could be credible,” McEnany said while co-hosting the “Outnumbered” show on Fox News.
The improbable idea was floated by co-host Harris Faulker amid the breaking reports that Breyer plans to retire after the court recesses at the end of June. Biden has said repeatedly that he would pick a black woman as his first Supreme Court nominee and Faulkner said that “it’s hard to not to see, at least, [Harris] makes the list.”
“They don’t know what to do with Kamala Harris in the White House right now,” Faulkner said. “I can’t be the only person seeing this.”
McEnany, who was a White House spokeswoman for former President Donald Trump, told Faulkner, “I think you’re right” and said the possibility “was playing in my mind from the moment we heard about this retirement.”
“Politically speaking, if you are not happy with your vice president, and you want her in a different role, there’s no greater role than on the Supreme Court,” she said. “I think she’s at least on the shortlist.”