Judge Who Wouldn’t Say Brown Decision Correct Changes Mind (1)

December 4, 2019, 8:53 PM UTCUpdated: December 4, 2019, 10:25 PM UTC

A Trump judicial nominee who previously wouldn’t say whether a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck school segregation as unconstitutional was correctly decided changed his answer at his second Senate hearing Dec. 4.

Andrew Brasher, a Donald Trump-appointed judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama who the White House tapped for an open appeals court seat, told a Senate panel Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided at his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Brasher previously answered the question in June 2018 at his confirmation hearing ...

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