Black civil rights leaders say Trump judicial nominee is a product of the modern white supremacist machine
Civil rights leaders are calling on the Senate to reject President Donald Trump's nominee to a federal court in North Carolina
Arguing that Thomas far has long worked to promote racist policies and is a product of the modern white supremacist machine
far Trump's pick for the US District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina began his career as counsel to former US senator
Jesse Helms a supporter of racial segregation who represented, North Carolina for thirty years
Over the last decade foreign his law firm colleagues have defended voting restrictions and identification laws that courts have struck down as deliberately
discriminatory the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found in
2016 that North Carolina's voter restriction lost targeted black communities with almost surgical precision
Black civil rights leaders and progressive groups including the Congressional Black Caucus are calling on the Senate to reject far
In October the Senate Judiciary Committee approved him in a party-line vote and fires now up for confirmation by the full Senate
Reverend William barber - president of the North Carolina and double-a-c-p
wrote in the Tuesday
New York Times op-ed that far who he called the most alarming of all of trumps judicial nominees would pose a direct threat to North
Carolina's black communities
African-americans seeking to have their rights protected under federal law have much to fear if mr.
Farr takes the bench he wrote he went on senators from both sides of the aisle must condemn the experience mr.
Farr brings with him having practiced white supremacy for decades mr.. Farr is not likely to withdraw
Every senator who condemned the racism on display and Charlotte's film must vote to prevent it from having power in the federal judiciary
Barbour noted that about half of North Carolina's black residents live in the area presided over by the Eastern District and
Despite President Barack Obama's efforts to seat to black female nominees on that Court the Eastern District has never had a black judge
members of the Congressional Black Caucus torn into FAR's record in a September letter to the Judicial Committee pointing to his work on Helms
1990s a campaign during which postcards were mailed to
100,000 black voters wrongly suggesting they were ineligible to vote in warning
They could be arrested and prosecuted for fraud if they tried it is no
exaggeration to say that had the White House deliberately sought to identify an attorney in North
Carolina with a more hostile record on African American voting rights and workers rights than Thomas far
It could hardly have done so the caucus members wrote
Far told the Senate during his September hearing that he only learned of the postcards after they were sending that he was
appalled by the strategy
But a former Department of Justice official who investigated the incident has directly contradicted FAR's claim arguing that he was
Certainly involved in the scheme as it was being developed
The Leadership Conference on civil and human rights has accused Favre lying to the Senate and called on him to withdraw his nomination
the n-double-a-cp Legal Defense Fund is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to bring far back in for more questioning
Far appears to have explicitly misled the Senate about his role in a scheme to intimidate black
North Carolinians and stop them from voting in the 1990 midterm elections the Legal Defense Fund wrote last month
Arguing that far as neither sufficiently qualified nor competent to serve on the federal judiciary
this comes after the American Bar Association
Determined that four of trumps judicial nominees are not qualified to serve on the federal bench
Those listed and qualified by the ABA did not include one nominee Matthew Peterson who withdrew himself from consideration
Earlier this month after a video clip of him struggling to prove basic knowledge of legal procedure went viral
Peterson's withdrawal was the third by a trump judicial nominee in ten days Trump, who is filling federal judicial vacancies led her rapid rate
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