The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to approve the nominations of judges for life-term appointments who refused to say whether they agreed with the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. I saw their testimony on television and was appalled. Democratic senators asked them if they agreed, and they said they could not answer because the matter might come before them on the federal court. This is appalling. They cannot say that they agree that laws that separate children by race are unconstitutional.
As civil rights activist Vanita Gupta writes, This is not a trick question. Both Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were asked the same question and immediately agreed.
But Trump nominees refused to endorse this landmark of American law.
They are scoundrels. They do not deserve to be appointed judges for life.
They should have been asked whether they endorsed the Confederacy.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
These candidates were selected to forward racism and especially in the south.
. According to the report in the link:
Each of the three nominees would sit on courts within the Fifth Circuit (Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi), which has historically been one where key questions about civil rights are raised, from voting rights to educational opportunity. The circuit has the largest percentage of people of color of any circuit in the nation and considers a sizeable number of civil rights cases involving racial and other forms of discrimination. If confirmed, these nominees would be a danger to the over 30 million people who reside in the Fifth Circuit and indeed to the entire country, since lower court judges have the power in some cases to issue nationwide injunctions.
I disagree with the “especially in the south” part of your otherwise accurate comment. Having grown up in the South, being a part of an anti-David Duke coalition in Louisiana in 1989-90 and now living in Ohio, there are eerie similarities between parts of my new home and my old one. We will get the same type of judges here; in fact they are regularly being nominated and elected at the local level in communities where it would have been inconceivable just 15 years ago.
These far right lifetime appointments will come back to haunt us for years. We will be getting Trumpist interpretations in court for decades.
Flood the High Court
ha
here’s a thought –
if they dismiss Brown, then they support Plessy.
Go for it – – then let them cough up the money and resources now that we can follow the money to EQUAL. State funding formula do not provide equal. And, LOCAL dollars should fit in the formula – – how does one district spend $25,000 per kid and another $10,000. Let them reconcile that one … you want separate, then pay equal
Absurd.. yes –
but they don’t buy (pun intended) the equity and integration rationale so hit them in their taxes to support equal
$10,000??
How about $8,000 in my rural poverty district.