"We have the first Black woman… The first Black we ever had - we've only had two, Thurgood Marshall, 1967. When he died, it was George Bush, the first, was president. And so they accepted the idea that there was now a Black seat on the court and that's how we got to Clarence Thomas," Maher said during a panel discussion on Friday. "Now, I thought it was not exactly crooked to give the Black seat to somebody who didn't represent the majority of Black thinking in America, but here's the difference, at least they accepted, George Bush did, the idea of at least one Black seat on the court."
"I think that today's Republicans would not do that. I think they would be thrilled to have no black seats on the court," Maher told the panel, before clarifying, "Okay, a lot of them."