A U.S. senator has suggested that four federal judicial nominees, including one from Texas, were coached to sidestep his question asking whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided.

Judicial nominees Ada Brown, Steven Grimberg, David Novak and Matthew Solomson all gave nearly identical answers to the question posed by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, during their Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.