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Mitch McConnell just filed cloture for district court nominee Thomas Farr, a guy who helped draft NC's voter suppression law, defended racist gerrymandering + may have lied to senators about aiding Jesse Helms' campaign in disenfranchising black voters. huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-f…
Dems have opposed lots of Trump's judicial picks, but Thomas Farr really stands out. Black Caucus members attended his confirmation hearing to oppose him. Every Dem in Judiciary spoke out against him. A civil rights group tied him to “the worst elements of white supremacy."
Every Republican on the Judiciary Committee voted to advance Farr's nomination earlier this year. huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-f…

Among them: Jeff Flake, who is currently threatening to hold up all judicial nominees until the Mueller protection bill gets a vote. We'll see if that holds.
NAACP already out with a statement on Farr moving fwd: "That Majority Leader McConnell chooses this moment in time to vote on a judicial nominee known as the vote-suppressor-in-chief is not lost on anyone. It is a slap in the face to communities of color everywhere."
It would take only 2 GOP senators to vote with all Dems to reject Farr's nomination.

In related news, Tim Scott has the rare distinction of tanking one of Trump's other judicial nominees over his record of racist writings. huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-scot…
I've reached out to the GOP senators I think are most likely to vote no on Thomas Farr, if anyone will: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Tim Scott and Jeff Flake.

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Missing from so much of the news coverage of Native people being outraged by Elizabeth Warren's DNA test: Native voices.

I asked prominent tribal leaders and Native people about it. Surprise: they said Warren is an ally and this narrative is media fodder. huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabet…
Virtually everyone I talked to -- tribal chiefs, Native politicians, policymakers, advocates, writers -- said they saw nothing wrong with Warren looking into her ancestry. You would never know this from the way mainstream media has covered this. huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabet…
Here's Richard Sneed, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Is he mad at Warren for taking a DNA test to understand her ancestry? Not. At all.
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I'm gonna do a little thread that I think you should read. (1/14)
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young Native woman named Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind. She lived in Fargo, North Dakota. She was 22 years old. She was eight months pregnant. And then she disappeared. (2/14)
Her parents called the police. After reports of suspicious behavior by a couple who lived in the same apt building as Savanna, the police got a search warrant & smashed in the door to their apt. They found the woman who lived there with a newborn. It was Savanna's baby. (3/14)
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A thing getting lost in the news cycle: Republicans are quietly holding confirmation hearings for some of Trump's controversial judicial nominees while nobody is here. No Dems present. No real questions. Just moving em through. Unprecedented. huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ju…
I asked a judicial nominations expert to weigh in on what Republicans are doing here. He said the GOP is "undermining all customs of the Senate." huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ju…
So which nominees to lifetime seats on US circuit courts are essentially getting a free pass on their confirmation hearing?

Eric Miller, 43, who built a career out of fighting Native American tribal interests and sovereignty. huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ju…
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🚨🚨Senate voting today on Trump judicial nominee who defended unconstitutional voter suppression & racial gerrymandering in NC & tried to disenfranchise 125,000 black voters for Jesse Helms, then lied to Senate about it motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Tom Farr has worst record on voting rights I've ever seen from judicial nominee:

Defended unconstitutional voter suppression & racial gerrymandering

Tried to disenfranchise 125k black voters for Jesse Helms & lied to Senate

Linked to segregationists

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
When NC passed monster voter suppression law court said targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision” Tom Farr was hired by GOP to defend it. He also defended “among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a federal court.”
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A quick thread on federal judiciary nominee Thomas Farr, whose nomination is headed for a vote on the Senate floor. Farr is anti-voting rights, anti-worker and does not deserve a lifetime appointment. I remain ardently opposed to his nomination.
Farr defended a voter suppression law in NC that a court said targeted Black voters with “almost surgical precision.” He advised Jesse Helms’ Senate campaign in 1990, which sent postcards to voters in heavily Black precincts falsely informing them they were ineligible to vote.
Farr has represented corporations that discriminated against customers and workers, including a car company that allegedly imposed additional requirements on Black customers and a pharma company that allegedly created a hostile work environment for its female workers.
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Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed calling for bipartisanship, and people are not having it
#WednesdayWisdom #McConnell
washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11…
2/"The date was Oct. 23, 2010 — nearly two years into President Barack Obama’s first term and two weeks before the first midterm elections of his presidency. Speaking to the National Journal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a now-infamous statement:
3/“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler has pointed out, reading the quote in its full context makes it clear that McConnell was saying that it would be impossible for
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💃🏼Power!💃🏼

Last night Trump mocked & made fun of a victim of sexual assault.

GOP & the RW media machine have been doing same for weeks.

@GOP have declared war on all female Americans.

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F*CK NO! VOTE!
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Is Kav a mole for Judical Watch/FedSoc, ergo NatSec risk?🤔
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Ron Wyden called for the IRS to fully investigate the allegations of tax fraud committed by Trump & his family
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Five years ago, five justices on the Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that for decades protected voters in states with pernicious histories of voting discrimination. Don't forget what happened in the immediate aftermath of this appalling decision:
Within 24 hours of the decision, the conservative justices prompted a deluge of voter suppression legislation. Texas and Alabama announced plans to plow ahead with restrictive and previously blocked voter-ID laws. Weeks later, N.C. passed its monster voter suppression law.
Five years later, the landscape is worse: The Republican voter suppression campaign now has the enthusiastic endorsement of the nation’s president – a president who is stacking the federal courts with the very people who cheered the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
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⚡️💥🤑🚢🆘 #McConnell refused to bring the legislation to protect #Mueller to the Senate floor. A short thread on #MitchMcConnel and #ElaineChao's history of corruption. @WendySiegelman @grantstern @peterjukes @AHamiltonSpirit @dcpoll @lukeharding1968 cnn.com/2018/04/17/pol…
1. In Sep 2016, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, the CIA informed the Congress about Russian interference with the election. McConnell objected to declassifying the information & making it public, claiming bipartisanship issues.
politico.com/story/2018/01/…
2. On January 31, 2017, Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was sworn as a State Secretary of Transportation for Trump’s cabinet.
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