Posted on 11/26/2018 3:59:12 PM PST by jazusamo
Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pleaded with Republican Senators on Monday to defeat President Trump’s nominee to a North Carolina judgeship, saying Thomas Alvin Farr has shown he doesn’t respect black voters’ rights.
Mr. Schumer said all 49 Democrats will vote against Mr. Farr, as will one Republican, Sen. Jeff Flake.
If they can sway another GOP senator, they could defeat the nomination, dealing a blow to Mr. Trump.
“This is a man who stands for disenfranchisement of voters, particularly minority voters, that is what he stands for. You can try to parse it any way you want, but that is what he has done. That is not America,” Mr. Schumer said on the chamber floor.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, set his confirmation vote up for later this week.
Mr. Farr was nominated to the federal bench in July of 2017, meaning he’s waited longer than any other judicial vacancy. And the seat he’s been nominated for is the longest vacancy of any federal court, dating back to at least the beginning of the Obama administration.
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I guess this is not a Democrat judge.
> “Schumer begs Senate to defeat Trump judicial nominee: ‘How can you have this man in the court?’”
America asks Senate to ignore Schumer: “How can you have this schmuck in the Senate?”
McConnell has done an excellent job on judges, you may be right but hopefully he knows he’s got the votes.
He will simply be renominated if VP Pence can’t break a tie vote.
Flake is such a pathetic little man. It is a shame he can’t just join his mentor McCain and save us from ever having to hear his traitor name again.
Funny thing is that most of what Schumer says could apply to him. “How can you have this man in the US Senate?”
Would he need to be re-nominated in the new Senate regardless ?
There are no Republican or Democrat judges.
Then why are Democrats voting against Farr?
“If they can sway another GOP senator, they could defeat the nomination, dealing a blow to Mr. Trump.”
Why not just wait until the new Senate is seated with two extra Republican votes and reduce the risk of lame duck RINOs torpedoing the nomination
Vince Lombardi once said, "Hope is not a strategy." I wouldn't put anything past McConnell.
I’m beyond the point of being angry at Flake for his lies in 2012. Thanks to him, resources were put into his race and taken away from real conservatives like Dan Bongino. At this point, Flake has told so many lies I don’t even consider him a human being worthy of common decency anymore. If I saw him choking, I’d just walk by and not do a thing. If saw Flake drowning, I would not lend a hand and, just like with Hugo Chavez, I don’t wish illness on anyone but if it happened to Flake I’d know it was well-deserved.
Yes he would need to be renominated but he would be easily confirmed.
Chuck-U learned nothing from the defeat of four Rat Senators.
Will he? When was the last time that happened?
No. He isn't a recess appointment.
SINCE Senator Flake has publicly announced that he will NO LONGER “consent” to judicial nominations based on the qualifications of those nominees — THEN hasn’t he publicly RESIGNED from the Senate’s Judiciary Committee?
IMHO, Senator McConnell should now tell Senator Flake:
“Since you won’t do the work required of all members of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, you’re fired!”.
Lead counsel in numerous employment discrimination cases
Lead counsel in numerous administrative OSHA trials before the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission including death cases, alleged violations of the general duty clause, and trench citations
Lead counsel in OSHA case brought by NC OSHA attempting to appeal the general industry standards to agricultural operations
Lead counsel for the President Pro Tem of the North Carolina State Senate and the Speaker of the North Carolina House on redistricting legislation and pending redistricting litigation (2011 through 2015). Counsel to NC Speaker and President Pro Tem on Voting Rights issues and election law reform (2011-2015)
Lead counsel for plaintiff interveners in Shaw v. Hunt, which challenged North Carolina’s 1992 Congressional redistricting. Successfully prepared and argued appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
Lead counsel in Stephenson v. Bartlett, a lawsuit successfully challenging North Carolina's 2001 and 2002 legislative districts under the North Carolina Constitution Lead defense counsel in class-action suit brought by Washington-based legal defense fund against a local rental car company for alleged racial discrimination against customers
First chair in sexual harassment / intentional infliction and emotional distress claim in which plaintiff sought damages in excess of $20 million against a major corporation. Jury verdict returned in all claims for the defendant
Lead defense counsel in class action by EEOC against major multinational corporation for alleged racial harassment
First chair in employment discrimination lawsuit by railroad employee against major railroad. Jury returned a defense verdict
First chair for a local school board in defense of a case involving an alleged breach of an employment contract and alleged violation of statutory and constitutional rights. Jury returned verdict for school board
Successful argument of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, overturning a bargaining unit determination by the National Labor Relations Board
He received his Bachelor of Liberal Studies, summa cum laude, from Hillsdale College, where he was co-salutatorian. He received his Juris Doctor from Emory University and a Master of Laws in labor law from Georgetown University. He served as a law clerk to Judge Frank William Bullock Jr. of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Prior to entering private practice, he was an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. He is currently a shareholder in the Raleigh office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. where his practice focuses on employment matters and constitutional law.
Now for the crap Wikipedia promotes about him:
Farr represented Republican state legislators in lawsuits related to redistricting and voter identification changes which were struck down by a court as racially biased. Farr, who was involved with drafting the 2013 North Carolina voter I.D. law, had in court defended voting restrictions that were later struck down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which wrote that the law targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision." Newsweek described Farr as having a "history of working on voter suppression...part of a wider Republican effort that critics say disenfranchises African-Americans and the poor." In 2010, he advised the North Carolina General Assembly in what federal courts termed a "racial gerrymander" of the state's voting districts.
In 1990, Farr played a role in an unlawful effort at voter suppression conducted by the Jesse Helms re-election campaign, aimed at preventing African Americans from voting. The campaign mailed 150,000 postcards to residents in African-American neighborhoods stating that the recipients were not eligible to vote and would be imprisoned if they showed up at the polls. When the campaign was sued by the Department of Justice, Farr defended it and in 1992, after the election was over, signed a consent decree.
Yep, that kinda krap sounds all too familiar and it’s right down Chuckie’s alley.
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