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jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a.s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. well get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponizat...

Speed to make that happen. but democrats and many legal experts are alarmed at what theyre hearing from people who are on track to get those seats like civil rights attorney sherrilyn ifill who said, quote, brown should be regarded as a low bar to clear for any judicial or justice department nominee. that scores of trump nominees have been confirmed despite a refusal to even approach this simple question is a shameful reminder of how far we have moved away from principles that once enjoyed broad...

This is not an accident. this is orchestrated. what is critical for viewers to know is this is not the norm. this is not a conservative/liberal thing. conservative justices have been asked this question in the past, particularly justices nominated to the united states supreme court, and they have answered the question. they have chosen not to answer, for example, questions about roe v. wade, but theyve always answered questions about brown. chief justice roberts talked extensively about brown at...

But also to women, to members of the lgbtq community. it was a new way of reinvigorating what the meaning of the 14th amendment and equal protection meant. and there are many who are in opposition to some elements of that. by simply refusing to talk about brown, it sends a signal, its a flair, a shot across the bow that we should not ignore and we should not have a failure of imagination with anyone proposed by this administration that they might carry extreme views. >> speaking of a failure of ...

Judicial review. he put it in that category that they were unlikely to ever return to the supreme court. so thats what chief justice roberts thought in 2005. are there now members of the legal profession who believe that brown, the question of whether state-sanctioned apartheid is constitutional or not? an issue that might return to the supreme court? what possible reason could one have not to answer the question? it sends a signal, theres some signaling happening that everything is on the table...

What we are seeing from these judges beginning with wendy vitter last year and other nominees, including the deputy attorney general who was just confirmed yesterday, is a decision to refuse to endorse brown, which used to lie at the center of the cannon, within the legal profession. we should take note theres a concerted effort to move brown to the margins. >> to what end? are these judges that do not believe the doctrine of separate but equal is invalid? are these judges who one day might take...

Something new has happened, and what we are seeing from these judges beginning with wendy vitter last year and other nominees, including the deputy attorney general who was just confirmed yesterday, is a decision to refuse to endorse brown, which used to lie at the center of the cannon, the center of the condescension within the legal profession. we should take note theres a concerted effort to move brown to the margins. >> to what end? are these judges that do not believe the doctrine of separa...

Decision that established judicial review. he put it in that category that they were unlikely to ever return to the supreme court. so thats what chief justice roberts thought in 2005. are there now members of the legal profession who believe that brown, the question of whether state-sanctioned apartheid is constitutional or not? they believe thats an issue that might return to the supreme court? what possible reason could one have not to answer the question? and i do think it sends a signal. the...

His confirmation hearing described it as the most important case in the history of the supreme court. so its not as though this has been some line in the sand of conservative ideology. something new has happened, and what we are seeing from these judges beginning with wendy vitter last year and other nominees, including the deputy attorney general who was just confirmed yesterday, is a decision to refuse to endorse brown, which used to lie at the center of the cannon, within the legal profession...

Whats become clear by this succession of nominees answering the question in this way is that this is not an accident. this is orchestrated. what is critical for viewers to know is this is not the norm. this is not a conservative/liberal thing. conservative justices have been asked this question in the past, particularly justices nominated to the united states supreme court, and they have answered the question. they have chosen not to answer, for example, questions about roe v. wade, but theyve a...