Trump Picks Who Wouldn’t Say Brown Decided Correctly Advance

Three more of President Donald Trump’s federal district court nominees advanced in the Senate on Thursday, the latest to clear the Judiciary Committee despite their refusal to say whether a momentous Supreme Court decision on civil rights was rightly decided.

The panel cleared Ada Brown—who could become Trump’s first black female judicial appointee—Steven Grimberg, and David Novak to the Senate floor, where they await confirmation votes.

All of the nominees refused to say whether the landmark civil rights ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was rightly decided, prompting opposition from progressives.

“Senators can and should ask questions about a ...