The Senate confirmed U.S District Court contender Wendy Vitter’s nomination, despite what the NAACP calls her “offensive” refusal to embrace the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: “This bipartisan bill offers some important improvements to the current federal system, but it falls short of providing the meaningful change that is required.”