Trump Judicial Nominees Are Refusing to Endorse Brown v. Board of Education

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In normal times, it would be unthinkable. Under Trump, it’s become a trend.

STEPHANIE MENCIMER FEBRUARY 14, 2019 6:00 AM

There’s no Supreme Court decision more widely celebrated than Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 ruling that abolished school segregation. But this month, when Neomi Rao appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing on her nomination to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, she refused to say whether she thought the case had been correctly decided.

Asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) whether the court had made the right decision in Brown, Rao replied, “As a judicial nominee, I think it’s not appropriate for me to comment on the correctness of particular precedents.” Blumenthal asked her for a yes or no, but Rao would say only that Brown is “an incredibly important decision of the Supreme Court”—a dodge she twice repeated when pressed further.

In normal times, the moment might have been extraordinary. During the Trump administration, it’s par for the course. Rao is one of at least 10 Trump nominees to the federal courts in the past year who have refused to offer an opinion on Brown.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/trump-judicial-nominees-are-refusing-to-endorse-brown-v-board-of-education/

[CrispyQ]

1. The damage he's done will be with us for decades. -nt

[spicysista]

2. Really?

This decision is too controversial? The "backslide" is real! Smh.

[Kind of Blue]

3. To me, seems like she answered the question last April.

"...but I think I get into a difficult, difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with."

What boggles my mind still is not her recent dodge but that a person of color, parents Parsi Indians, support the GOP mindset. Sometimes I think people like her are holding out to be the last ones exterminated in their dreamed of supremacy rule.