McConnell advances Senate vote on GOP 'segregationist' judge -- nominated by GOP for the third time

[DonViejo]

McConnell advances Senate vote on GOP ‘segregationist’ judge — nominated by Republicans for the third time

NOOR AL-SIBAI
15 NOV 2018 AT 17:52 ET

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday advanced the nomination of a judge who has been called a “segregationist” — and has ties to white supremacists.

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In December 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that Thomas Farr — a GOP judge re-nominated by Donald Trump after his initial nomination in 2017 was stalled by the Senate — had links to the scientific racism Pioneer Fund group.

Farr’s link to the group created in 1937 to promote “race betterment” came “through his longtime boss and mentor, Thomas Ellis, the political mastermind behind the arch-segregationist Senator Jesse Helms,” the SPLC noted. Ellis was a former director, grantee and “close associate” of the group.

Prior to the report on the judge’s links to the Pioneer Fund, civil rights groups raised alarms about his previous rulings and actions — including his role in drafting and defending NC’s “monster” voter ID law that a federal court struck down because it targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/mitch-mcconnell-advances-senate-vote-gop-segregationist-judge-nominated-republicans-third-time/

[Docreed2003]

1. I would expect nothing less from McTurtle

What a loathesome pos he truly is!

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. His legacy will be fascinating for historians.

Why would you want to destroy the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and your Party, Mitch? You can't take the money with you. You only have your reputation on what you did, for future generations to judge.

[NCjack]

3. Here comes another heart-wrenching vote by Flake and Collins. (The excuse

to be issued: "I'm assured by Leader McConnell and Pres. Trump that candidate Farr's views have evolved.&quot