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Trump Judicial Pick Refuses to Say if She Supports Landmark Segregation Ruling

Wendy Vitter played coy when asked if she believed 1954’s Brown v. Board of Ed was the right decision.

President Trump’s judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Louisiana refused to say whether she supported the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that struck down school segregation. And yes, this is 2018. At her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Wendy Vitter was plainly asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal: “Do you believe that Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided?” Her initial response raised an immediate red flag: “I don’t mean to be coy,” she began, before continuing: “I think I get into a difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions—which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with. Again, my personal, political, or religious views I would set aside. That is Supreme Court precedent. It is binding. If I were honored to be confirmed I would be bound by it and of course I would uphold it.” Asked again by a befuddled Blumenthal whether she supported the ruling, Vitter replied: “Again, I would respectfully not comment on what could be my bosses ruling—the Supreme Court—I would be bound by it, and if I start commenting on ‘I agree with this case’ or ‘don’t agree with this case’ I think we get into a slippery slope.”