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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. we'll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jorda...

Speed to make that happen. but democrats and many legal experts are alarmed at what they're 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 consensus in this new normal. nominees either support brown, the rule of law and equality under th...

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 they've always answered questions about brown. chief justice roberts talked extensively about brown at his confirmation hearing. justice alito described brown as vindicating the true meaning of equal p...

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, it's 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 imagination, every time i speak to you, i get smarter about something. i have to say this wasn't a ...

Judicial review. he put it in that category that they were unlikely to ever return to the supreme court. so that's 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, there's some signaling happening that everything is on the table. and it's important for people to remember that brown wasn't just about school desegregation. wha...