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Republicans appear to have the votes to confirm one of the architects of America's worst voter suppression law.
IAN MILLHISER
NOV 27, 2018, 3:40 PM
The Senate is expect to vote this week on whether to confirm Thomas Farr, a lawyer who helped draft what may be the most aggressive voter suppression law since Jim Crow, to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. And it is very likely that Republicans have just barely enough votes to prevail.
Although all 49 members of the Senate Democratic caucus oppose Farr, and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) says he will vote against all judicial nominees unless the Senate holds a vote on a bill intended to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Republicans appear likely to hold onto the 50 senators they need to put Farr on the bench.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who occasionally breaks with her caucus, says she will support the nomination. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AR), another occasional defector, says she doesnt plan on blocking Farrs nomination.
Farr helped draft a 2013 North Carolina law which combined many voter suppression tactics favored by Republican state lawmakers. A federal appeals court later struck down this law, explaining that it targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.
https://thinkprogress.org/thomas-farr-voter-suppression-become-a-federal-judge-434d80bc6918/
And then there are the two twins, Collins and Murkowski.......................
Hey Murkowski, did you by chance see what your Neil Gorush did in North Dakota,, and you don't think this Farr asshole like Natives in Alaska, even though he will not be in the court system up there...................his fucking decisions will affect the Natives, as for Collins she's worthless and her husband is a Russian hack, after all he got money from them.....................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)As are all other Republicans who vote for a man who wrote and supports Voter Supression.
Polybius
(15,411 posts)Her biggest danger is losing the Republican primary, which she has.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)But Susan Collins and Republicans up in 2020, will have this stain on their records if Farr gets confirmed.
Republicans win when there is Voter Supression because they cannot win on the issues that matter to people, like making voting EASIER, not harder.
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)It looked like you needed "one more vote": Off to the Greatest Page