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.
Now, attorneys aren’t charged with their clients’ views, but Farr’s record calls into question his ability to be an impartial judge and he has done nothing to hide his extreme bias.
He compared the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act to the Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions—comments that are absolutely offensive to anyone with an understanding of American history.
This Administration is committed to transforming the federal judiciary with extreme appointees who will bring bias to the bench and won’t uphold the ideal of equal justice for all Americans. I’ll do everything I can to stop them.
