Very disappointing. Thoughts?
I don’t know what Farr wrote, but I do know that if he wrote some generalized statement about blacks that it might be viewed differently by a black person than by you or me. Senator Scott is a conservative, but he’s also black. If a senator does not vote fir a judicial nominee because he honestly questions whether the nominee might hold racial animus, that does not make such senator any less conservative. I save my vitriol for senators who vote against a nominee because such nominee is conservative, which certainly is not the case with Senator Scott, who has voted for every one of President Trump’s judicial nominees (all of whom were vetted by the Federalist Society for conservative views) other than the two who had written things that made Senator Scott question whether they have racial animus.
If Scott and Flaje are the only Republicans to oppose Farr, then the new Senate can confirm him in January. Of course, other Republicans might withhold support for Farr now that Scott, whose opinion they respect and whom they know doesn’t use accusations of racism as an excuse to oppose conservatives, has come out against the nomination. So we’ll see whether Farr ends up with the seat, or whether another conservative gets it. We will have 53 Republicans in the Senate on January 3 (and Flake won’t be one of them), and Trump’s judicial nominations have been excellent, so I am confident that a conservative judge will fill that seat.