🚨🚨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/…
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.” 
In 1984 & 1990 Tom Farr led “ballot security” efforts for Jesse Helms, one of most racist politicians in US. Helms tried to disenfranchise 125,000 black voters through racist voter suppression scheme & was sued by DOJ for voter intimidation
NEW: Harvey Gantt, first black mayor of Charlotte who ran against Jesse Helms in 1990, tells me he opposes Tom Farr’s nomination. “Farr’s role in interfering with the voting rights of Black North Carolinians represents a stain on his record from which he cannot recover”
Tom Farr lied to Senate about his role in voter suppression scheme for Jesse Helms, saying he only learned about it after 1990 election when in fact he was central player in disenfranchising black voters
New DOJ memo shows Tom Farr’s “ballot security” efforts for Jesse Helms included “a postcard mailing to voters in predominantly black precincts which was designed to serve as a basis to challenge voters on Election Day.” That was brazen voter suppression
Tom Farr’s longtime law partner, Thomas Ellis, a top strategist for Jesse Helms, ran a white supremacist group that promoted eugenics research alleging whites were genetically superior to blacks. Farr praised him in 2007 speech
While other GOP-appointed judges have defended voter suppression laws, only Tom Farr has actively engaged in voter suppression against black voters. That’s a new low for Trump nominee motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
.@SenSchumer on Tom Farr: “Every American should be alarmed by the attempt to confirm a nominee with Farr’s egregious record on voting rights, particularly with the Republican agenda to maintain power by limiting access to the ballot now on full display"
All 49 Senate Dems + Jeff Flake opposed to Tom Farr’s nomination. So only 1 more Republican needed to sink it
Vote is currently 49-50 on Tom Farr. @SenatorTimScott is deciding vote & can kill nomination if he votes no
