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April 12, 2018

Trump Judicial Nominee Won't State Position on School Desegregation
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President Trump's nominee to become a federal district court judge in
Louisiana refused to say Wednesday whether she supports the landmark
1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling on school
segregation. This is Louisiana lawyer Wendy Vitter, under questioning by
Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal: "Do you believe that Brown v. Board of
Education was correctly decided?"

Wendy Vitter: "Senator, I don't mean to be coy, but I think I get into a
difficult-different-difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme
Court decisions which are correctly decided and which I may disagree
with."

At Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Vitter also insisted that, if
confirmed, she could "put aside" her long-standing anti-abortion
advocacy. Vitter has spoken frequently at anti-abortion rallies and has
worked for years to defund Planned Parenthood; she once told the New
Orleans Clarion Herald that Planned Parenthood "kills over 150,000
females a year."


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