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New: In a noticeable shift, Trump’s judicial nominees are now endorsing Brown v. Board of Education. Republican Sen. Tim Scott's staff had complained to leadership about nominees refusing to say the landmark desegregation ruling was correctly decided. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
From Scott's office: "We just communicated it was perhaps time to encourage folks to give a better answer." One source familiar with the process said DOJ notified nominees that they could face GOP pushback if they didn't directly endorse Brown buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
For more than a year, most of Trump's judicial nominees wouldn't give a direct answer when asked if Brown was correctly decided -- we explore what happened that led nominees to balk on Brown, what the process was like behind the scenes, and what's changed buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
