A U.S. senator has suggested that four federal judicial nominees were coached to sidestep his question asking whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s 65-year-old landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided.

Judicial nominees Steven Grimberg, Ada Brown, David Novak and Matthew Solomson all gave nearly identical answers to the question posed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, during their Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning. Blumenthal called Brown “one of the pillars of our jurisprudence … that is ingrained in our law.”

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