The very selective effort to cast Biden’s Supreme Court pick as an affirmative action hire

In the first two cases in particular, the pool of potential candidates was substantially decreased by the promise. So the question becomes why eliminating a huge majority of potential picks (by promising a woman) wasn’t discrimination, or why it doesn’t assign a historical asterisk to the tenures of Amy Coney Barrett (Trump’s pick) and Sandra Day O’Connor (Reagan’s), but this one does. Or at least, why the people crying foul now didn’t also cry foul when Trump made his promise less than two years ago?